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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