Multiple Choice
A bacteriophage typically cannot infect a human cell because
A) human cells do not have a circular genome, which this type of virus requires.
B) the human cell wall blocks the injection of the bacteriophage genetic material.
C) macrophages destroy bacteriophages before they are able to infect other cells.
D) human cells lack the cell surface proteins that bacteriophages must interact with.
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