With reference to DNA repair, which of the following statements, if any, is false?
A) In the great majority of cases, DNA repair is some kind of mechanism that does not directly reverse the molecular steps that cause DNA damage.
B) Most of the time DNA repair involves a mechanism that makes a repair to both DNA strands.
C) When DNA repair involves repairing both DNA strands, the accuracy of the repair is higher in cells where the DNA has replicated than in cells before DNA replication.
D) DNA repair mechanisms are not evolutionarily well-conserved; human repair mechanisms differ significantly from those in the cells of other vertebrates.
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