Diagnosed with skin cancer

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A nurse is caring for a patient who was recently diagnosed with skin cancer. The patient confides in the nurse that she frequently used tanning beds and sunbathed without sunscreen when she was younger. The nurse recognizes that the DNA in the patient's skin was likely damaged by UV light exposure and that the damage led to which type of genetic mutation? a germ-line mutation a somatic mutation a gene-level mutation a chromosomal mutation.

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