Question

Please someone say the meaning of protovirus

Answer 1

Protoparvovirus is a genus of viruses in the subfamily Parvovirinae of the virus family

Answer 2

NOUN

1A hypothetical primitive or ancestral virus.

2(In H. M. Temin's terminology) a hypothetical sequence of chromosomal DNA in a somatic cell that can replicate by reverse transcription and give rise by mutation to an oncogenic virus (frequently attributive, especially in "protovirus hypothesis", "protovirus theory").