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30 March, 02:20

In viruses called retroviruses, the genetic information is contained in RNA; these viruses have no DNA. These viruses also have an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. What is its function?

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  1. 30 March, 02:27
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    It catalyses the synthesis of complementary DNA copies from RNA.

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    The reverse transcriptase is an enzyme that allows strands of DNA molecules to be synthesized from a single strand RNA template. The enzyme, also known as RNA directed DNA polymerase is usually used by retroviruses to synthesize complementary DNA sequence from an RNA template, a process that is an opposite of transcription.
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