Compared to blood capillaries, lymph capillaries exhibit all of the following except that they

A) have no basement membrane.
B) have only a tunica interna.
C) have walls of endothelial cells that overlap like shingles.
D) are smaller in diameter.
E) are frequently irregular in shape.


D

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