A junctional escape beat occurs when:
A) the AV junction becomes irritable and temporarily overrides the SA node.
B) there is a conduction block between the SA node and AV node.
C) there is an accessory pathway that causes reentry of the impulse at the AV node.
D) the rate of the SA node is slower than that of the AV node.
D
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