Benzopyrene, a component of cigarette smoke, can induce DNA mutations by
A) converting cytosine to uracil by deamination.
B) converting an amino group on cytosine into a keto group.
C) adding a chemical to guanine, making it unavailable for base pairing.
D) changing bases to forms unrecognizable by DNA polymerase.
E) breaking the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA.
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