Introduction: AIDS is a serious problem that is plaguing the world today. AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a disease characterized by the progressive ... proceeds to integrate its own genetic material into the cell's genome. "Retroviruses contain an RNA genome and the RNA dependent DNA polymerase also termed reverse transcriptase. The reverse transcriptase synthesizes a double-stranded DNA copy of the genomic RNA template. The tRNA molecule acts as a primer for the first strand synthesis. The reverse ... transciptase, RNAse H activity, degrades the RNA strand of the RNA-DNA d...

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