The ipsogen RT Kit is a ready-to-use kit for reverse transcription of total RNA into cDNA using reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR). The kit provides highly accurate and reproducible reverse transcription of total RNA into cDNA. Reverse transcriptase is a multifunctional enzyme with 3 distinct enzymatic activities: an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, a hybrid-dependent exoribonuclease (RNase H), and a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase. In vivo, the combination of these 3 activities allows transcription of the single-stranded RNA genome into double-stranded DNA. The RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity (reverse transcription) transcribes cDNA from an RNA template. This activity allows synthesis of cDNA for cloning, PCR, and sequencing.