P1 bacteriophage can be used as an experimental vehicle to move genes from one cell to another because occasionally large pieces of host DNA are accidently packaged into phage heads. What is this process called?

A. lysogeny
B. bacterial transduction
C. phase variation
D. transposition
E. cointegration


B

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