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HIV repliates within livng cells, using the cells replication enzymes to allow the cell to do so. However as HIV is a retrovirus, it brings some of its own enzymes with it. HIV has single-stranded RNA genomes, the retroviral genes encode an enzyme called transcriptase which turns RNA into DNA allowing them to reproduce in the cell.
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