A virus that is composed not of DNA but of RNA. Retroviruses have an enzyme, called reverse transcriptase, that gives them the unique property of transcribing their RNA into DNA after entering a cell. The retroviral DNA can then integrate into the chromosomal DNA of the host cell, to be expressed there. HIV is a retrovirus.

A type of virus that has RNA instead of DNA as its genetic material. It uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to become part of the host cells’ DNA. This allows many copies of the virus to be ma [..]

(reh-troh-vy-rus) [L. turning back] An RNA virus that reproduces by transcribing its RNA into DNA and then inserting the DNA into a cellular chromosome; an important class of cancer-causing viruses.

1977, earlier retravirus (1974), from re(verse) tra(nscriptase) + virus. So called because it contains reverse transcriptase, an enzyme that uses RNA instead of DNA to encode genetic information, whic [..]

A type of virus that, when not infecting a cell, stores its genetic information on a single-stranded RNA molecule instead of the more usual double-stranded DNA. HIV is an example of a retrovirus.

A retrovirus is a virus that uses RNA as its genetic material. When a retrovirus infects a cell, it makes a DNA copy of its genome that is inserted into the DNA of the host cell. There are a variety of different retroviruses that cause human diseases such as some forms of cancer and AIDS.

A member of a class of RNA viruses that utilizes the enzyme reverse transcriptase to reverse copy its genome into a DNA intermediate, which integrates into the host-cell chromosome. Many naturally occ [..]

RNA virus capable of integrating its genetic material into the genome of its host. The virus injects its RNA genome into the host cell, where reverse transcription produces a complementary, double-str [..]

Based on the biological term retrovirus, a computer retrovirus is one that actively seeks out an antivirus program on a computer system and attacks it. A retrovirus will attempt to disable and infect [..]

A virus that has an RNA genome and replicates it through a DNA intermediate. DNA can be inserted into the genome of host species.

Any virus belonging to the viral family Retroviridae. They are enveloped viruses possessing an RNA genome, and replicate via a DNA intermediate. Retroviruses rely on the enzyme reverse transcriptase to perform the reverse transcription of its genome from RNA into DNA, which can then be integrated into the host's genome with an integrase enzyme [..]

(French : rétrovirus) A virus with an RNA genome that propagates by conversion of the RNA into DNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

A retrovirus contains RNA as its genetic material, rather than DNA. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is an example of a retrovirus.

A virus with RNA as its genetic material. When the retrovirus infects a cell, its own enzyme reverse transcriptase makes viral DNA from the RNA template. This viral DNA can then be integrated into the [..]

microscopic organism that can cause tumors and diseases in animals and people;  they contain RNA and use it to make DNA which is the opposite of most viruses. reverse fault

A type of virus that has RNA instead of DNA as its genetic material.  It uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to become part of the host cells' DNA. This allows many copies of the virus to be made in the host cells.  HIV is an example of a retrovirus.

(n) any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then inc [..]

A type of virus. HIV is a retrovirus. See also HAART and antiretroviral therapy.

A class of viruses which includes HIV. Retroviruses are so named because they carry their genetic information in RNA rather than DNA, and the RNA information must be translated "backwards" i [..]

A Retrovirus is a class of enveloped virus. Retroviruses contain RNA and utilise an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to translate thier RNA into DNA in the host cell.

A type of eukaryotic virus containing an RNA genome that replicates in cells by first making a DNA copy of the RNA. This proviral DNA is inserted into cellular chromosomal DNA, and gives rise to furth [..]

Family of RNA Viruses that infects Birds and Mammals and encodes the enzyme Reverse Transcriptase. The Family contains seven genera: Deltaretrovirus; Lentivirus; Retroviruses Type B, Mammalian; Alphar [..]

A genus of the Family Retroviridae with type C morphology, that causes malignant and other Diseases in wild Birds and Domestic Fowl.

Retroviruses that have integrated into the germline (Proviruses) that have lost infectious capability but retained the capability to transpose.

Classes of Retroviruses for which Monkeys or Apes are hosts. Those isolated from the West African green Monkey and the Asian Rhesus Macaque Monkey are of particular interest because of their similarit [..]

Previously a genus of the Family Retroviridae consisting of oncogenic exogenous Retroviruses that contain type D particles. It included the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus. Now it represents one of the two [..]

A species of Gammaretrovirus isolated from vipers.

A type of virus that uses RNA as its genetic material. After infecting a cell, a retrovirus uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into DNA. The retrovirus then integrates its viral DNA into the DNA of the host cell, which allows the retrovirus to replicate. HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is a retrovirus. See Related Term( [..]

Transcription is the process by which genetic information in DNA is converted into RNA, and reverse transcription, involving the enzyme reverse transcriptase, is the synthesis of complementary DNA fro [..]

Single-stranded DNA

Any of a family of viruses that store their genetic material as single-stranded RNA rather than 2-stranded DNA.

A type of virus that has RNA instead of DNA as its genetic material. It uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to become part of the host cells’ DNA. This allows many copies of the virus to be made in the host cells. The virus that causes AIDS, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is a type of retrovirus.

a type of RNA

A type of virus that contains RNA as its genetic material. Once in a host cell they perform a "backwards" conversion of RNA to DNA, which inserts itself into an infected cell's own DNA. Retroviruses can cause many diseases, including some cancers and AIDS.

An RNA virus that replicates by first being converted into double-stranded DNA by reverse transcriptase.

A virus whose primary genetic material is RNA instead of DNA. Replication of the genome of such a virus requires the RNA to be copied into DNA using reverse transcriptase. This RNA serves as a template for the synthesis of a complementary DNA, which may be integrated into the host DNA. This group of viruses includes HIV (AIDS virus).

A class of viruses, which copy genetic material using RNA as a template for making DNA.

A member of a class of RNA viruses that utilizes the enzyme reverse transcriptase to reverse copy its genome into a DNA intermediate, which integrates into the host cell chromosome.