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it has a biological function in HIV,
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but we can use it for a technical logical function here
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by going backwards on the biological path from messenger RNA to DNA.
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Now DNA that's produced this way
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is not called genomic DNA
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because this doesn't match the DNA in your genome,
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on your chromosomes,right?
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The introns are gone now.
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It's called cDNA or complimentary DNA
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to indicate that it's a copy,
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a complimentary copy of the messenger RNA.
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This is a much more efficient way to