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HIV contain rna, but by the process of reverse transcription it get DNA
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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 is the role of integrase in HIV?
The role integrase plays in HIV is that it fuses viral DNA with host DNA.
Hiv is a virus affecting RNA or DNA?
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.
How can recombinant DNA technology be used to combat HIV infections?
How can recombinant DNA technology be used to combat HIV infections?
What enzyme turns HIV rna into HIV DNA?
The enzyme is called reverse transcriptase. The class of HIV drugs that block this process are called reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Does HIV antibodies go away after some time?
No. HIV is a retrovirus that infects its host's DNA lysogenically (inserting its own genome into the host genome after reverse-transcripting into DNA). Therefore, it stays in your cells' DNA forever. However, you can suppress HIV symptoms and keep them at bay with many of the "HIV cocktails" (combinations of protease inhibitors, etc. that prevent the virus from replicating).
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 the result if the patient is having an HIV DNA laboratory examine when hbsag is negative?
The result is that the patient HIV infected if the hbsag is negative.
How is transcription for hiv different from normal cell transcription?
HIV contains two copies of a single-stranded RNA that is copied into DNA as part of its replication whereas normal cell transcription goes from DNA to RNA
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.
Which is the enzyme that HIV uses to synthesize DNA on an RNA template?
This is reverse transcriptase. HIV drugs that block this part of the HIV lifecycle are called reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Which of the following lists the steps of HIV replication in the correct order?
HIV binds with the CD4 protein on the surface of the T4 lymphocyte. The HIV fuses with the T4 lymphocyte. Viral RNA (ribonucleic acid) and reverse transcriptase enter the target cell. Reverse transcriptase produces viral DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) from the viral RNA. Viral DNA enters the target cell's nucleus and splices into the target cell's DNA. The target cell uses the information on the viral DNA and produces the pieces needed for building copies of HIV. The pieces are assembled into new copies of HIV. This process uses an enzyme called protease. Copies of HIV are released from the target cell in a process called budding.
