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#Question id: 3886


Which one of the following statements about the reverse transcriptases of retroviruses and the RNA replicases of other single-stranded RNA viruses, such as R17 and influenza virus, is correct?

#XL - Q Biochemistry
  1. Both enzymes can synthesize either RNA or DNA from an RNA template strand.

  2. Both enzymes can utilize DNA in addition to RNA as a template strand.

  3. Both enzymes carry the specificity for the RNA of their own virus.

  4. Both enzymes have error rates similar to those of cellular RNA polymerases.