The cholera bacterium releases toxins that lead to chloride ions being secreted into the small intestine. How does this change the water potential of the blood in the intestinal capillaries and of the intestinal contents?
- Ablood in capillaries: lowered; contents of small intestine: lowered
- Bblood in capillaries: lowered; contents of small intestine: raised
- Cblood in capillaries: raised; contents of small intestine: lowered
- Dblood in capillaries: raised; contents of small intestine: raised