Chapter 17, Problem 8Q

Summary Introduction

To review:

The comparison between central dogma and reverse central dogma as given in the figure:

Introduction:

The central dogma of molecular biology is the flow of genetic information from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to ribonucleic acid (RNA) and then to proteins. The central dogma was given by Francis Crick. All the living organisms follow this pattern of flow of information except retroviruses. Retroviruses perform reverse transcription.