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by cloudwalking
5624 days ago
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A retrovirus is an RNA that uses the host to make it's corresponding DNA. White blood cells--which HIV takes over--don't contain DNA building blocks (dNTP) because white blood cells don't replicate. So HIV can't make it's corresponding DNA. Instead, it just replicates using rNTP to produce more RNA. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) rNTP is available because it's used in ATP synthesis. (retrovirus (dNTP) DNA)
(hiv (rNTP) RNA)
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