provirus

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of provirus

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A virus genome, such as HIV, that integrates itself into the DNA of a host cell so as to be passively replicated along with the host genome.

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Etymology

From pro- + virus.

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