KROK 1 2021 – Question 118 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A man is a carrier of AIDS virus that is an RNA virus. The cells of this patient synthesize viral DNA. This process is based on:
- A. Repair
- B. Translation
- C. Transcription
- D. Reverse transcription
- E. Replication
Hint
Consider the usual direction of genetic information flow (DNA to RNA to protein) and what a virus with an RNA genome must do differently to get DNA, and with which enzyme.
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