Which of the Following Statements Is True About Specialized Transduction

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true about specialized transduction?

• A) Specialized transduction always directs the production of new phage particles immediately upon infecting the host bacterium.
• B) Bacteriophage undergoing specialized transduction integrate their DNA into a random region of the host cell's genome.
• C) Specialized transduction requires that bacteriophage infect at least two different cells to be carried out.
• D) A bacteriophage may at some point become reactivated, excise itself and surrounding bacterial genes from the genome, and begin to build new phage particles.
• E) Specialized transduction occurs in all bacteriophage except the temperate phages.

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