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What does it mean if something is a retrovirus?
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RNA to DNA: It means that the RNA of the virus gets "reverse transcribed" into dna so it can the be inserted into the human dna. This is the opposite of what usually happens (dna gets transcribed into rna). It's called a "retrovirus" because the transcription is backwards.
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