Molecular Biology of the Gene 7th Edition by Richard Losick, James Watson, Michael Levine, Tamara Baker, Alexander Gann

Exercise 10

Researchers have found that treating human tumor cell lines with an inhibitor of reverse transcriptase reduces the rate of tumor-cell proliferation. Predict why reverse transcriptase is expressed in human cells. Hypothesize a general reason why reverse transcriptase activity could be associated with tumor cells.