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Noun Concept

Categories: Articles with 'species' microformats, Virotherapy, Modification of genetic information, Ortervirales, Retroviruses

retrovirus Retro-viruses Retro virus retroviral retroviral infection

Any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell WordNet 3.0

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A retrovirus is a type of virus that inserts a DNA copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell. Wikipedia

Family of viruses Wikidata

A type of virus that stores its genetic information in a single- stranded RNA molecule, then constructs a double-stranded DNA version of its genes using a special enzyme called reverse transcriptase. OmegaWiki

IS A

animal virus

taxonomic group

virus

HAS KIND

human immunodeficiency virus

human T-cell leukemia virus-1

endogenous retrovirus

Equines Foamyvirus

Human T-lymphotropic virus

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