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Retroviruses have no DNA. However, the DNA of the infected host cell does possess viral DNA. How is it possible?

Retrovirus use the enzyme reverse transcriptase and convert their RNA into DNA, thus it is possible that the DNA of the infected host cell possesses viral DNA while retrovirus doesn’t have DNA.


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