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Retroviridae
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Translingual
Etymology
mul retro viridae (1975), from such a virus's use of its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pattern
Proper noun
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family order Ortervirales 1 prototypical retroviruses
Hypernyms
family ; Revtraviricetes class 1 - class; Ortervirales order 1 - order - ICTV 2019
Hyponyms
family Orthoretrovirinae subfamily 1, Spumaretrovirinae subfamily 1 - subfamilies
Alpharetrovirus genus, Betaretrovirus genus, Deltaretrovirus genus, Epsilonretrovirus genus, Gammaretrovirus genus, Lentivirus genus; Bovispumavirus genus, Equispumavirus genus, Felispumavirus genus, Prosimiispumavirus genus, Simiispumavirus genus - genera
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