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Retroviruses do not follow central dogma. Comment.

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Retroviruses do not follow central dogma of biology (DNA`to`RNA`to`Proein) because their genetic meterial is not DNA. Instead they have RNA that is converted to DNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptese.
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