HIV is actually a retrovirus because it has the property of irreversibly integrating itself into a person's genetic make-up. How does it do this? With the help of a certain kind of enzyme, it manages to insert itself into the genetic structure of the healthy cell.
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2 sentences with “retrovirus”
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Brief definition: retrovirus
A retrovirus is a type of virus that inserts its genetic material into the DNA of a host cell using an enzyme called reverse transcriptase.
2 sentences with “retrovirus” — examples
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Today the world is terrified by a retrovirus discovered in the 1980s, which may have jumped to humans from some animal species (it is distantly related to one that affects African green monkeys); it is the cause of the disease called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS.
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