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Molecular Basis Of Inheritance

Question
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Which one of the following does not follow the central dogma of molecular biology?

  • Pea

  • Mucor

  • Chlamydomonas

  • HIV

Solution

D.

HIV

The central dogma a proteins synthesis is expressed as
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Temin described the presence of an enzyme, ie, reverse transcriptase or RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, which controls the synthesis of DNA from a single strand of RNA. D-Baltimore also described the presence of this enzyme in RNA tumour viruses. The presence of this enzyme changed the central dogma of protein synthesis into central dogma reverse.
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