
Dr. Arvinda Nath: Endogenous Retroviruses and Disease
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Is It a Retroviral Component?
Retrovarus is an arne and it has a revers transcripte. So when it reverts transcribes into the diony, it will get integrated into the chromosomo diany. Once it gets integrated into the fertilized egg, they are then all cells that are going to get formed from there will have a copy of that genu. Now what can happen is that copy can now multiply itself into the new offspring. And hence, it will lead to the evolution of a new species. There's a lot of good evidence of this, that a lot of the traits that are really important, that separate us from other organisms, or even differentiate even one plant from another
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