One Important Feature of Retroviruses Such as HIV Is Their

question 35

Multiple Choice

One important feature of retroviruses such as HIV is their generation of a provirus, a copy of the viral genome that is inserted into the host cell chromosome. In addition to providing a template for viral mRNA transcription, the proviral genome:

• A) Is maintained long-term and transmitted to all of the cell's progeny
• B) Is easily recombined out of the host cell chromosome to generate new viral genomes for packaging
• C) Can be cleaved by the viral proteases to generate multiple viral proteins
• D) Can induce DNA duplication to generate multiple viral copies in the host cell chromosome
• E) Can be reverse transcribed to generate viral genomes for packaging into new virus particles

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