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Retrovirus utilize an enzyme to produce DNA from their RNA, which can be inserted into the host genome.

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Genetic material of a virus?

Can be either DNA, or for retroviruses, RNA.


Retroviruses are so named because they?

because they reverse the usual DNA-to-RNA flow of genetic information in the process called transcription


Which types of viruses codes backwards from RNA to DNA?

Retroviruses are a type of virus that contain RNA as their genetic material and use an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to convert their RNA into DNA once inside a host cell. This DNA is then integrated into the host's genome and can be replicated along with the host cell's DNA. Examples of retroviruses include HIV and some types of cancer-causing viruses.


Why do most retroviruses require reverse transcriptase to proliferate?

Retroviruses contain RNA as their genetic material, which needs to be converted into DNA in order to integrate into the host genome. Reverse transcriptase is the enzyme responsible for this conversion, a crucial step for the virus to replicate and proliferate efficiently.


What genetic material is in both viruses and bacteria?

Both viruses and bacteria contain genetic material in the form of DNA or RNA. Viruses can have either DNA or RNA as their genetic material, while bacteria typically have DNA as their genetic material.


Which material contain genetic bluprints of a cell?

DNA


Give an example of the virus that contain DNA as its genetic material?

The virus for warts and chickenpox's contain DNA.


What virus DNA or RNA must supply its own enzyme to replicate or reproduce?

Retroviruses. They have genetic material of RNAand need the enzyme reverse transcriptase to transcribe a DNA strand from their RNA genetic material. Then another strand and then this is inserted into the hosts DNA to begin a lysogenic cycle.


Does the plant cell or the animal cell contain genetic material?

Both plant cells and animal cells contain genetic material in the form of DNA. This DNA carries instructions for the cell's functions and characteristics. The DNA is located in the nucleus of the cell in both plant and animal cells.


What does nucleus contain?

Nucleus contains Nucleolus, Genetic Material, and DNA


What are the similarities of viruses and prokaryotes?

They all contain DNA in there genetic material


What is the threadlike structure in the nucleus of the cell contain genetic material?

DNA