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- August 8, 2007 at 12:20 am #8056
nikkyParticipantWhat is the difference between DNA and RNA in replication?
- August 8, 2007 at 9:56 pm #75076canalonParticipant
- August 8, 2007 at 10:00 pm #75079PoOrParticipant
Nikki
You from South Jersey?
My course just covered that topic today in class. - August 9, 2007 at 6:29 pm #75096nikkyParticipant
PoOr
no, i’m from Minneapolis.
Cool your doing the same topic?
i’m doing this summer package for AP biology, can you tell me the difference between them? - August 9, 2007 at 9:37 pm #75101DarbyParticipant
RNA isn’t really replicated, only DNA is. You need copies of the basic code, and RNA is made from the basic code.
- August 25, 2007 at 5:05 am #75425david23Participant
RNA can be replicated during RNA virus infections. Oh no, I just threw in some extra stuff not covered in the usual ap bio package. I think nothing short of copying pasting paragraphs will help.
- September 1, 2007 at 2:03 pm #75704DarbyParticipant
Don’t RNA viruses still go through a DNA intermediary to make the RNA for new viruses? It seems like they’d pretty much have to. But I guess that still would be a replication pathway…
- September 1, 2007 at 2:57 pm #75706MrMisteryParticipant
not all of them. Some do – retroviruses
Others have their own polymerase that can transcribe their RNA genome. Then that copy can serve either as mRNA or as a template to create more copies of their genome by RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
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