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RNA TUMOUR VIRUS

The family of retroviruses (Retroviridae) that can reason tumours. They are enveloped by membrane derived from the plasma membrane of the host cell, from which they are released by budding without lysing the cell. Within every virion is a pair of single stranded RNA molecules. Replication involves a DNA intermediate made on an RNA template by the enzyme reverse transcriptase. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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