Problem
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an RNA virus that produces a special nucleic acid polymerase that makes a double stranded DNA molecule from an RNA genome. This polymerase is called reverse transcriptase. Additional details concerning how HIV infects, replicates in, and leaves host cells are shown in the figure below
At step 5 of the infection and replication cycle, the host cell machinery makes the viral genome and viral proteins, but the exact details are not provided. Based on what you've learned about how nucleic acids and proteins are made in the cell, explain what is likely happening.
• How are copies of the viral genome being made? Explain why you think that
• How are viral proteins being produced? Explain why you think that.