Although the family name of Belcher is a prominent one in English and American history, it is actually Old French in origin. The ancestor of the Belcher family came to England from France, as part of William the Conqueror's army that came to England in the Norman Conquest of 1066 A.D.
(Microbiology) any of several viruses whose genetic specification is encoded in RNA rather than DNA and that are able to reverse the normal flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA by transcribing RNA into DNA: many retroviruses are known to cause cancer in animals.
DeÂ·penÂ·doÂ·viÂ·rus. A genus of small defective single-stranded DNA viruses in the family Parvoviridae that depend on adenoviruses for replication. Adeno-Associated Virus. A member of the parvovirus family, which is composed of small viruses with a genome of a single-stranded DNA. AAVs insert genomic material at a specific site on human chromosome 19 with nearly 100% certainty, and are used to construct vectors that introduce genes into cultured cells.