WEISMANN CHALLENGED. “An enzyme, reverse transcriptase, is now known that does allow information to flow from RNA to DNA, and a category of viruses (retroviruses) do insert their genetic component into their hosts’ DNA by this means. Some genes (virogenes) appear to be of viral origin.
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