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What HIV enzyme is essential for its successful replication in a host cell?
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∙ 8y ago
Reverse transcriptase is the enzyme that permits the HIV virus to enter the cell. There are other human diseases that are also caused by other viruses using a reverse transcriptase.
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What is need for viruses to grow?
They need a living cell. It is essential for replication.
What is the helicase enzyme?
Unwinds the DNA during DNA replication and Trancription
What does replication mean in biology?
The process of duplicating or producing an exact copy, as in DNA replication.
Why would a new cell need an entire copy of the old cell's DNA?
So it can carry out the sum total of all cellular functions. Genes code for proteins and you would not want to be short of a needed enzyme, for instance. Besides, the actuallity of replication IS replication of the genetic material. That is what genes do.
What happens to a cell if it lack the enzyme DNA polymerase?
Transcription would be affected because the binding of the enzyme RNA plymerase to the promoter of the gene is the first step of transcription.
When during a cell cycle does Replication occur?
The stage of the cell cycle, replication occurs is meosis The stage of the cell cycle, replication occurs is meosis The stage of the cell cycle, replication occurs is meosis The stage of the cell cycle, replication occurs is meosisDNA replication occurs during the S phase of interphase.
What is the process in which DNA copies itself prior to cell division?
This process is known as DNA replication. DNA is a double-stranded molecule, and this serves to the cell's advantage. Using an enzyme, the cell splits the DNA strands apart, and new strands are copied onto the two parent strands to form two identical new strands. The process is much more complicated than that, but that's what happens.
How often in the life of a cell does replication occur?
Replication occurs only once in the life of the cell.
When does replication in a cell take place?
replication in the cell take place in the second phase which is the metaphase.
When does replication occur?
Biological replication is of two types 1: DNA replicationwhich occurs in nucleus during S stage of Interphase of cell cycle before cell division and 2 : cell division is considered cell replication .
Why was it important to find an enzyme that would cut the plasmid at only one site?
If the plasmid were cut at the replication, it would not be able to reproduce & transfer genetic information to its host cell.
What is it called when a cell duplicates its DNA?
DNA replication
