An emergency room physician has withdrawn blood from a vessel in your arm. The dark red color of the blood indicates that it was

A) on its way to the tissues of the arm.
B) going away from the heart.
C) coming from the lungs.
D) taken from a vein.
E) taken from an artery.


D

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