Reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that creates DNA from RNA, is the reason HIV is classified as a retrovirus.
Reverse transcriptase is an enzyme that synthesizes DNA from an RNA template. HIV is a retrovirus because it utilizes reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA genome into DNA.
| Front | What does reverse transcriptase do and why is HIV called a retrovirus |
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| Back | Reverse transcriptase catalyses the production of DNA from RNA. HIV is called a retrovirus due to presence of reverse transcriptase |
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