Retroviridae

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Etymology

retro- +‎ -viridae (1975), from such a virus's use of its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pattern

Proper noun

Retroviridae

  1. A taxonomic family within the order Ortervirales – prototypical retroviruses.

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