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Topic: aids help please.
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slmnchica24
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posted 04-29-2000 09:45 AM
  
hey, i am doing a report, can someone help me out? i need to know if aids is composed of DNA or RNA. if anybody has any idea, please let me know, email me or post. its due on monday, and i have looked all over the internet and i cant find it. thanks!IP: Logged |
Jellydonut
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posted 04-29-2000 02:15 PM
You're in luck  I'm taking bio (and loving it... as freaky as it may sound.) The virus that causes aids is HIV (duh), also known as human immunodeficiency virus. HIV is a retro virus, meaning that the genetic information is contained in **RNA**. Thus, their genetic information is copied backwards from RNA to DNA (instead of the normal DNA to RNA.)In more details, once the HIV has entered a cell, the viral RNA is released into the cell. A viral enzyme called reverse transcriptase makes a **DNA copy** of the virus's RNA. The cell then produces HIV proteins and genes, which assemble to form new viruses. Those new virsues then either break out of the cell by budding through the membrane or they brust the cell membrane, killing the cell. If you need any more help, or this doesn't seem clear to you (it won't seem that clear if you don't know the normal cycle of how DNA is copied to RNA and how it all goes back to DNA), let me know. ------------------
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slmnchica24
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posted 04-30-2000 05:40 AM
hey, thank you, as it turns out, one of the members in my group is going to do the questions that we have to answer, and i am g oing to do the poster, so i just sent him ur info. thank you very much!IP: Logged | |
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