Multiple choice

The genetic material of HIV is RNA. It also contains an enzyme. The virus injects the RNA and the enzyme in the host cell where the enzyme makes cDNA copies of its genomic RNA. Which enzyme is it?

  1. Restriction endonuclease

  2. Reverse transcriptase

  3. Taq polymerase

  4. DNA polymerase

  5. DNA ligase
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Reverse transcriptase transcribes RNA into DNA.

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