HIV is a retrovirus, so they probably use it as an example of viral reproduction to make it all relevant and trendy...
The best explanation of transcription, translation, replication etc I've ever read was a free magazine given to me. A copy of the Watchtower, in fact. It was excellent for four pages until they got to the bit that said "This is so cool that it proves God exists!" Er, whatever.
Re: hmm, 'normally'?
Date: 2006-02-28 04:26 pm (UTC)The best explanation of transcription, translation, replication etc I've ever read was a free magazine given to me. A copy of the Watchtower, in fact. It was excellent for four pages until they got to the bit that said "This is so cool that it proves God exists!"
Er, whatever.