Retroviruses
The genome of retroviruses consists of RNA not DNA. HIV-1 and HIV-2, the agents that cause AIDS, are retroviruses.
retrovirus
an animal RNA virus that replicates itself through a DNA intermediate
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Retrovirus
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Retrovirus
A retrovirus is a virus that uses RNA as its genetic material. When a retrovirus infects a cell, it makes a DNA copy of its genome that is inserted into the DNA of the host cell.
Retroviruses - A class of viruses that can create double-stranded DNA copies of their RNA genomes. These copies of its genome can be integrated into the chromosomes of host cells. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus.
Retroviruses
Retroviruses use RNA instead of DNA as their nucleic acid core. They also contain the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which will detranscribe the RNA sequence into a DNA strand..
retroviruses Viruses that contain a single strand of RNA as their genetic material and reproduce by copying the RNA into a complementary DNA strand using the enzyme reverse transcriptase.
retrovirus
(reh-troh-vy-rus) [L. turning back]
An RNA virus that reproduces by transcribing its RNA into DNA and then inserting the DNA into a cellular chromosome; an important class of cancer-causing viruses.
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Retrovirus A class of viruses whose infectious genome is single stranded RNA and which, as part of their normal life cycle, integrate into their host genome after conversion of the RNA to DNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptase.
Retrovirus. A member of a class of RNA viruses that utilizes the enzyme reverse transcriptase to reverse copy its genome into a DNA intermediate, which integrates into the hostcell chromosome.
Retroviruses
The genetic material of retroviruses is RNA. The retrovirus carries an enzyme called reverse transcriptase, which is capable of creating a DNA copy of the viral RNA.
The new DNA produced from the RNA template is called cDNA.
Retrovirus A virus that contains an RNA genome but that replicates through the intermediacy of double-stranded DNA that is integrated into the host-cell genome.
Reverse transcriptase An enzyme that synthesizes DNA by using an RNA template.
Retrovirus
Short for Reverse Transkriptase Onko Virus.
RNA virus that encode the enzyme reverse transcriptase so that their RNA can be transcribed into DNA in the host cell; ...
Retrovirus: core contains reverse transcriptase and its genetic material as RNA
HIV can change its surface proteins and evade the immune system / vaccination is difficult
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Retroviruses
Certain viruses have the ability to insert a copy of themselves into the genome of a host. The chemical that make this possible (reverse transcriptase) is widely used in genetic engineering.
Plasmid or retrovirus vectors are stably integrated into the genome of tissue culture cells, resulting in the stable expression of transfected genes.
Endogenous retrovirus: Integrated retrovirus DNA (provirus) derived from infection of the germline of an ancestral animal.
What is makes retroviruses different from other RNA viruses like influenza?
An enzyme used by retroviruses to form a complementary DNA sequence (cDNA) from their RNA. The resulting DNA is then inserted into the chromosome of the host cell.
Ribonucleotide
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HIV is one of a group of atypical viruses called retroviruses that maintain their genetic information in the form of ribonucleic acid (RNA).
enzyme first discovered in retroviruses, that can construct double stranded dNA molecules from the single stranded rNA templates of their genomes.
HIV is a retrovirus; retroviruses after entering your cells make a copy of DNA from their RNA using an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, the DNA is then inserted into your DNA and replicates along with your DNA.
Reverse transcriptase
An enzyme produced by retroviruses that can synthesize a strand of DNA complimentary to an RNA template. (Reverse transcriptase can also synthesize DNA from a DNA template.) Used to make cDNA clones from mRNA.
artificial DNA construct derived from a retrovirus, used to insert sequences into an organism's chromosomes.
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retroviral vector - artificial DNA construct derived from a retrovirus, used to insert sequences into an organism's chromosomes.
REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE - A DNA polymerase which copies an RNA molecule into single-stranded cDNA; usually purified from retroviruses.
REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION - Copying of an RNA molecule into a DNA molecule.
In many cases the latter genes enable bacteria to live in extreme environments. Transposons are much longer than IS elements. Some resemble, and may originate from, retroviruses.
Also called transposable element or 'jumping gene'.
 See also: Trans, DNA, Virus, Cells, Protein
  
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