Which of the following is the most common type of hydrolysis damage in the cell?

A. deamination of thymidine
B. breakage of the glycosidic linkage between the pyrimidines and the DNA backbone
C. removal of cytosine from the DNA backbone to create an abasic site
D. deamination of cytosine to uracil
E. None of the damage types given is known to occur in cells.


D

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