English
retrotranscriptase
From retro- + transcriptase.
Formed from retro- + transcriptase
Latin retrō ‘back, backwards, behind’
English retro-
Today it means
noun Synonym of reverse transcriptase.
Sources
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Etymograph / retrotranscriptase