Drug resistance arises quickly for Hepatitis C virus due to:
A) high error rates of host RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
B) high error rates of viral DNA-dependent reverse transcriptase
C) higher error rates at the constant regions within the RNA genome
D) higher error rates at the hypervariable regions within the RNA genome
E) higher error rates at the regions encoding viral proteases
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