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Hiv survives in humans using its reverse transcriptase enzyme. what does this enzyme do exactly?
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RNA to DNA: HIV is an RNA virus. To propagate it needs to convert its RNA genome into DNA and reverse trascriptase serves that function.
Answered 11/14/2014
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