A ___________________ is an RNA-containing virus that also contains a viral enzyme called reverse transcriptase that uses a strand of viral RNA as a template to synthesize a single strand of DNA.

a. glycovirus
b. retrovirus
c. influenzavirus


Ans: b. retrovirus

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