A patient diagnosed with HIV shows high viral replication. Which enzyme is responsible for converting the single-stranded viral RNA into double-stranded DNA?
Q1. A patient diagnosed with HIV shows high viral replication. Which enzyme is responsible for converting the single-stranded viral RNA into double-stranded DNA?
Answer: Reverse transcriptase
Explanation: Reverse transcriptase synthesizes DNA from an RNA template; RNA polymerase fails because it produces RNA from a DNA template.