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VIRUSES are thought to have either RNA or DNA as their genetic material, but not both1, although oncogenic RNA viruses containing reverse transcriptase have been shown to contain some DNA. I did not expect to find that coliphage T5, a DNA-containing virus, also contained some RNA.
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ROSENKRANZ, H. RNA in Coliphage T5. Nature 242, 327–329 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242327a0
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