Please select the TRUE statement regarding bacteriophage life cycles.
A) Temperate phages lyse their host cells, whereas lytic phages either lyse their host or integrate their DNA into the host cell's genome.
B) Lytic phages lyse their host cells, whereas temperate phages either lyse their host or integrate their DNA into the host cell's genome.
C) In the bacteriophage life cycle, the entire virus enters the host bacterial cell through a hole in the cell wall.
D) Phage particles seek out their bacterial hosts by means of chemotaxis and then attach to random receptors on the host's cell wall.
E) The burst size is the number of bacterial cells that are lysed as a result of being infected by a bacteriophage such as T4.
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