NEET Biology question
Temin and Baltimore described the presence of an enzyme that controls the synthesis of DNA from a single strand of RNA, an enzyme whose discovery changed the central dogma of molecular biology into the "central dogma reverse". This enzyme is
Answer: (B)
Solution
The enzyme described by Temin and Baltimore is reverse transcriptase, which synthesises DNA using an RNA template and is therefore classified as an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, so option (b) is correct; DNA-dependent DNA
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