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In HIV, if reverse transcriptase cobbles together strands of DNA without much accuracy, why doesn’t the same thing happen in all cells? What is so special about HIV?

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In HIV, if reverse transcriptase cobbles together strands of DNA without much accuracy, why doesn’t the same thing happen in all cells? What is so special about HIV?

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Only RNA viruses routinely use reverse transcriptase to replicate DNA. We use a much more accurate enzyme called DNA polymerase.