Drugs Like AZT, DdC, or DdI Work Against the AIDS

question 44

Multiple Choice

Drugs like AZT, ddC, or ddI work against the AIDS virus because they

• A)destroy viral proteins.
• B)look like hairpins to cause premature termination of viral mRNA.
• C)look like tRNAs and block viral translation.
• D)look like nitrogenous bases and block viral reverse transcriptase.
• E)prevent the virus from releasing its genome into the cytoplasm.

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