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In some viruses, DNA is synthesised by using RNA as template . Such a DNA is called

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A-DNA

B

B-DNA

C

cDNA

D

rDNA

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In some viruses, like retroviruses (e.g., HIV), an enzyme called reverse transcriptase is used to generate complementary DNA(cDNA) from an RNA template. This process is termed reverse transcription .
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