The director of a laboratory in charge of making the flu vaccine for the upcoming season is planning her production strategy. She must consider the phenomenon of reassortment, in which

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Reassortment occurs when two different viruses infect the same cell and exchange genome segments, resulting in a new virus with a segmented genome that is a mix of the two original viruses. This is distinct from recombination (B), which involves the formation of a new genetic molecule from two different molecules, and from mutation processes (C, E) or antigenic shift (D) which involve different mechanisms of genetic change.

The Director of a Laboratory in Charge of Making the Flu