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HIV affects the DNA of the host cell by incorporating the double stranded DNA synthesized from reverse transcriptase as a provirus into the cell's DNA. These proviral genes are then transcribed into RNA molecules.
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Is a HIV virus an exemple of DNA containing virus?
HIV is an RNA-virus. It does not contain DNA.
What do the nucleic acids of a virus consist of?
Virus affecting animals have ss or ds RNA or DNA. Virus affecting plant have ss RNA,while virus affecting bacteria have ds-DNA.
Is herpes a DNA virus or RNA virus?
AIDS is not a virus. However, HIV is a RNA virus.
Is the common cold and HIV from the same virus?
No the cold virus is rhinovirus,where as HIV&AIDS is a retrovirus it reproduces by changing DNA into RNA.
What is Replication of an RNA virus?
You might be referring to the reverse-transcription that many retroviruses use (a virus with an RNA that turns into DNA). By using the enzyme reverse transcriptase, viruses like HIV can make a DNA from RNA template.
Which enzyme are retroviruses equiped with that allows them to transcribe DNA from an RNA template?
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus. A retrovirus is a RNA virus that replicates through a DNA intermediate. HIV synthesises DNA from RNA by the action of reverse transcriptase enzyme.
When human immunodeficiency virus HIV attaches to a host cell what genetic material is released into the cell's cytoplasm?
Within the HIV capsid is the genetic material RNA along with two reverse transcriptase enzymes to copy the RNA into DNA inside the invaded cell.
Is HIV RNA?
Yes, HIV is an RNA virus. However infectious HIV is more than just RNA.
What would the HIV viral sequence of AUCUU be converted to and by what enzyme?
The HIV virus is an RNA virus, so you know the sequence AUCUU is the RNA sequence. (You also know it is RNA because it contains uracil.) HIV is a retrovirus, so its RNA will be transcribed to DNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptase and then inserted into the host's genome. The RNA sequence of AUCUU would be transcribed to TAGTT.
Why is the HIV virus called a retrovirus?
HIV is considered a retrovirus because has enzyme reverse transcriptase.HIV has RNA as genetic material.Using reverse transcriptase HIV synthesizes Double strand DNA inside the host cell using host's materials.
What does a cell and virus have in common?
What a cell and a virus have in common is the RNA or DNA. The virus can be either a RNA virus or a DNA virus.
What kind of nucleic acid is Herpes Simplex?
The HIV virus contains two copies of single-stranded RNA.
