Which of the following statements about bacteriophage is false?

A. Ultraviolet radiation can cause induction.
B. Late genes are only expressed during the lysogenic cycle.
C. A temperate phage can have its DNA integrated into the host chromosome as a prophage.
D. Bacteriophages do not have a viral envelope.
E. A prophage is replicated with the bacterial chromosome and passed to the two new daughter cells.


Answer: B

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