Answer:
The correct answer is d) gap junctions
Step-by-step explanation:
Animals have gap junction in many places in their body like in cardiac muscles, nerves, epithelial cells, smooth muscles. It connects cell to cell through cytoplasm and helps in transferring of many molecules and electric signals between these cells.
Vertebrate heart is made up of mainly muscle tissue in which electric signals are transferred through these gap junctions throughout the heart.
These gap junction plays important role in contraction of all the muscle cells in the heart together which is an important process called systole.
Therefore, the correct answer is d) gap junctions.