PROVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does provirus mean? 

• PROVIRUS (noun)
  The noun PROVIRUS has 1 sense:

1. cDNA copy of the RNA genome of a retrovirus; the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell

  Familiarity information: PROVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

CDNA copy of the RNA genome of a retrovirus; the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into and able to replicate with the genome of a host cell

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("provirus" is a kind of...):

cDNA; complementary DNA (single-stranded DNA that is complementary to messenger RNA or DNA that has been synthesized from messenger RNA by reverse transcriptase)

 Context examples 

Insertion of the provirus can cause mutations by interrupting coding sequences or regulatory elements, or cause unregulated expression of the proto-oncogene resulting in tumor formation.

(Insertional Mutagenesis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)