A friend accidentally sends an email to you that contains a computer virus from his computer. Without knowing it, you infect your computer with the virus when you open the email. This process of spreading the computer virus via email is most like which of the following processes?

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Transduction is the process by which a virus transfers genetic material from one bacterium to another. In this case, the computer virus is transferred from one computer (infected by the virus) to another (uninfected computer) via email, similar to how a virus transfers genetic material from one bacterium to another via a bacteriophage. The other choices (binary fission, conjugation, and transformation) are all processes that occur within bacterial cells and are not applicable to computer viruses.

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