HIV has which of the following characteristics? It is an anti-retrovirus meaning
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HIV has which of the following characteristics? It is an anti-retrovirus meaning that it attacks the DNA causing the development of new HIV particles. It has a short incubation period which means that the symptoms show up also immediately after infection. It is a retrovirus meaning that it reverses the order of protein production in that the virus affects the DNA in the cell to make the protein. It has an enzyme called reverse transcriptase which causes the DNA to reverse the nucleotide sequence in messenger RNA.Explanation / Answer
HIV is caused by retrovirus hence statement one is wrong
HIV has incubation period of minimum 10 years hence this statement is wrong
Answer c is correct
In HIV ,reverse transcriptase , RNA is transcribe to DNA which integrate host DNA, thus HIV is retrovirus
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