Do eukaryotic organisms have reverse transcriptase enzyme?

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Srivatsava Viswanadha

@ Sezer : Do the plants which have retro-transposons contain reverse transcriptase ?

@ Artur : I have googled it and i am trying to confirm from the answers from the researchers. Some times sources like google and Wikipedia offer incomplete information.

@ Artur: Thank you for the guidance.