Scientists preparing preserved animals often inject colored latex into the circulatory system to identify different kinds of vessels.What color of latex is likely to be seen escaping from some blood vessels in preserved fetal pigs if pink latex is injected on the arterial side and blue on the venous side?

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Since pink latex was injected on the arterial side and blue on the venous side, the blue latex is likely to be seen escaping from some blood vessels in preserved fetal pigs. This is because blue latex would have traveled from the veins to the capillaries and then into some of the smaller arterial branches.

Scientists Preparing Preserved Animals Often Inject Colored Latex into the Circulatory