The figure below represents a lineage of a bacterial strain.Upon further studies of this system,you learn that the phage that infects the blue smile bacteria has a very small host range,and cannot infect the red smile bacteria.In light of this new information,determine what is the most likely mechanism that induced a change in the phenotype of this lineage. 
A) Random mutation
B) Conjugation
C) Transformation
D) Transduction
E) Lysogeny
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