The arteries
A) serve as rapid-transit passageways from the tissues to the heart because of their large radii.
B) act as a blood reservoir because they have the capacity to store large volumes of blood with little change in their internal pressure.
C) are the major resistive vessels of the vasculature.
D) are the site of exchange between the blood and surrounding tissues.
E) none of these answers.
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