BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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A virus is a non-cellular infectious particle that replicates only inside a living cell. Their genome consists of RNA or DNA that may be “single-stranded or double-stranded.” Retroviruses are the RNA viruses that use the enzyme reverse transcriptase to produce viral DNA in a host cell.

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