We have the blue section and we have the fused pink section and the protein capsule along with the contents are now found inside the cytoplasm of our cell. So what happens next? Well, HIV is a type of virus known as a retrovirus. Now, what exactly is a retrovirus? Well, a retrovirus is a virus that contains RNA molecules as well as a special enzyme that catalyzes the formation of viral DNA from that viral RNA. So that's why we have reverse transcriptase because it synthesizes our nucleotides in the opposite direction to what is normally seen in nature.