protovirus

/P R OW1 T OW0 V AY1 R AH0 S/
noun
  1. 1

    (biology) A DNA sequence capable of mutating into an oncogenic virus, proposed as a hypothesis to explain the origin of ribodeoxyviruses as arising from normal cellular components.

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