ретровирус

Etymology
Biological term borrowed from, coined in the 1980's. Equivalent to.

The name refers to the reverse pattern of replication of the virus - by first transcribing intrusive DNA from the virale own RNA, which is then attached to the DNA sequence of the host cell.

Noun

 * 1)  retrovirus viruses from family Retroviridae of class VI in Baltimore's classification
 * 2)  ortervirus any virus which uses reverse transcriptase for replication