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In some viruses, DNA is synthesised by using RNA as template. Such a DNA is called.
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In viruses, like retroviruses (e.g., HIV), an enzyme called reverse transcriptase is used to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from and RNA template. This process is termed as reverse transcription.
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