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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does HIV cause? | AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome0 |
| What kind of virus is HIV? | retrovirus |
| What is a retrovirus? | an RNA virus that reproduces by means of a DNA molecule. It copies its RNA to DNA using reverse transcriptase |
| reverse transcriptase | takes RNA molecule and transcrip it into a DNA molecule |
| activator | regulate lac operon, it's a protein called CAP |
| Transcription factor determine what? | When, Where, and How Much the gene is transcribed. |
| proto-oncogenes | always on, says, "code for this gene", mutation, constantly going (nothing to check it or stop it). |
| Tumor supressor | causes non-transcription factor |