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A retrovirus has a genome that consists of __________.

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3 genes.

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Retroviruses consist of a dimer of single-stranded positive sense RNA enclosed in a capsid of a lipid bilayer envelope and contain a reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme.5The retrovirus genome is composed of 3 genes (gag, Poland env) enclosed between 2 long terminal repeats: pol(polymerase) has RT and integrase function, gag (group antigens) is a polyprotein with processed matrix and core proteins, and unencodes envelope proteins (Figure 1A).

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