are viruses which contain their own enzyme for transcription of RNA to DNA. bacteriophages RNA+ viruses DNA viruses retroviruses
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Although there are many similarities between bacterial and eukaryotic viruses, one important class of viruses—the retroviruses—is found only in eukaryotic cells. In many respects, retroviruses resemble retrotransposons. A key feature of the life cycle of both is a step in which DNA is synthesized using RNA as a template—hence the prefix "retro", which refers to the reversal of the usual flow of DNA information to RNA.
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The reverse transcriptase enzyme is active in which class of viruses? a. Positive-strand RNA viruses b. Double-stranded DNA viruses c. Retroviruses d. Negative-strand RNA viruses
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Retroviruses (a) are DNA viruses (b) are RNA viruses (c) use reverse transcriptase to transcribe DNA into RNA (d) use prion protein to transcribe RNA (e) are DNA viruses that cause AlDS.
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