Endogenous Retroviruses

Caused by factors inside the retrovirus; produced or synthesized within the retrovirus. A retrovirus is an RNA virus (like HIV) that produces reverse transcriptase by means of which DNA is produced using their RNA as a template and incorporated into the genome of infected cells.

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