RETROVIRUS


Meaning of RETROVIRUS in English

[ret.ro.vi.rus] n (1975): any of a group of RNA-containing 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 -- ret.ro.vi.ral adj

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