OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1066

retrovirus

Meanings (ES + gloss)
retrovirus
Any of a group of viruses which insert a copy of their RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell, thus changing the genome of that cell.
Montagnier soon deduced that this was an RNA virus that could convert its genes into DNA and lodge into the human genome—a retrovirus.
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