When a pregnant woman ingests alcohol, the blood alcohol level of the fetus will
A) reach twice that of the mother's blood alcohol level within 30 minutes.
B) reach approximately the same level as the mother's in 15 minutes.
C) reach the same level as the mother's blood, but be biotransformed more rapidly by the fetus' liver and then eliminated from the fetal circulation.
D) only reach 15 percent of the maternal blood level.
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