Question
- What does central dogma state in molecular biology? How does it differ in some viruses?
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Answer
B - Transcription.
C - Translation.
- The central dogma of molecular biology states that the genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins.
- In some viruses, the flow of information is in reverse direction, i.e. from RNA to DNA and is called reverse transcription.
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