Nearly half of your dna consists of mobile genetic elements

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1. Which enzyme produces viral mRNAs in a cell infected with a retrovirus? What role do the LTRs play in this process?

2. Nearly half of your DNA consists of mobile genetic elements. What is their relationship to retroviruses? Are they of any use to us?

3. Both hepadnaviruses and retroviruses encode reverse transcriptase, yet the retroviral virion has a (+) ssRNA inside while the hepadnaviral virion has a gapped dsDNA molecule inside. How does this happen?

4. Does the hepadnavirus genome encode an RNAse H? An integrase? Why or why not.

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