Question
Retrovirus do not follow central dogma. Comment.
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Answer
Genetic material of retrovirus is RNA. At the time of synthesis of protein, RNA is reverse transcribed to its complementary DNA first, then transcriped to RNA and proteins. Hence, retrovirus are not known to follow central dogma.
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