The importance of phage-mediated lateral gene transfer by virioplankton was illustrated by the fact that cyanophages thought to infect Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus carry the structural gene for
A) nitrogenase.
B) phycocyanin production.
C) a photosynthetic reaction center protein.
D) all of the choices
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