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Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Information transfer from RNA to DNA is called
A. Replication
B. Translation
C. Transcription
D. Reverse transcription
D. Reverse transcription
Francis Crick proposed the central dogma in molecular biology, which states that the genetic information flows from DNA to mRNA (transcription) and then from mRNA to Protein (translation) always unidirectionally.
In some viruses the flow of information is in reverse direction, that is, from RNA to DNA. E.g., bacteriophage and HIV.
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