How does the flow of genetic information in hiv deviate from the central dogma proposed by Francis Crick?
It doesn't really deviate from the updated central dogma. The deviation you are referring to is the transfer of information from RNA to DNA. The conventional central dogma stated that information travels in moving or operating in a single direction from DNA to RNA to Proteins. Since HIV goes from RNA to DNA it is regarded a deviation. This process of going RNA to DNA is called reverse transcription.
HIV has a RNA genome. after infection, this RNA makes a complementary DNA strands. This then becomes a double-stranded DNA molecule which gets integrated into the host DNA molecule
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HIV has a RNA genome. after infection, this RNA makes a complementary DNA strands. This then becomes a double-stranded DNA molecule which gets integrated into the host DNA molecule
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