The dominant mechanism through which radiation damages biological tissue and living organisms is by ________
A) overheating the tissue.
B) making the tissue radioactive.
C) directly breaking bonds in DNA.
D) directly ionizing biological molecules.
E) ionizing water and producing hydroxy radicals.
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