Bacteriophage and E.coli are alike in the sense that they both lack membrane-bound organelles.
Viruses that infect bacteria are called bacteriophage. The words bacteriophage mean "bacteria eater". Bacteriophages take over the machinery of host cells to produce copies of themselves and then destroy the host cell in the process.
Bacteriophages are composed of a supercoiled nucleic acid which is surrounded by a protein capsid.
A bacteriophage adheres to the surface the susceptible bacteria and injects its genetic material. This way they occupy the genetic machinery of the host and produce several copies of their own nucleic acid and also the protein capsid to surround it.
The result is the lysis of bacterial cell and release of thousands of bacteriophage viruses which are capable of infecting more bacteria in the same manner.
Bacteriophage are acellular structures lacking any membrane bound cell organelles. E.coli is a kind of prokaryotic bacteria which also lack membrane bound organelles.
Therefore, the correct option is D.
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