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Hiv is a Retrovirus
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is called a retrovirus because the RNA genome transcribes or copies back into the DNA in the host cell. This is by way of reverse transcriptase - a viral enzyme. HIV can only replicate itself within living cells. It uses cells' replication enzymes to makes these copies of itself.