Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - retrovirus
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Retrovirus
retrovirus
noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1975 any of a family (Retroviridae) of single-stranded RNA viruses (as HIV) that produce reverse transcriptase by means of which DNA is produced using their RNA as a template and incorporated into the genome of infected cells and that include numerous tumorigenic viruses • retroviral adjective
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n. Biol. any of a group of RNA viruses which form DNA during the replication of their RNA. Etymology: mod.L f. initial letters of reverse transcriptase + VIRUS ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1977, from retro- "backward" + virus. So called because it contains reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that uses RNA instead of DNA to encode genetic information, which reverses the usual pattern. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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