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What does the enzyme reverse transcriptase do?

A. makes RNA from RNA
B. makes DNA from RNA
C. makes RNA from protein
D. makes DNA from protein

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The reverse transcriptase is an enzyme which is used to (B) make DNA from RNA. It generates a complementary DNA from a RNA template and that is why it is called reverse transcriptase.
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