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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These drugs are nucleoside analogs that resemble the natural nucleotides required by the viral reverse transcriptase enzyme to synthesize DNA from the viral RNA. By incorporating themselves into the viral DNA being synthesized, they cause premature termination of the DNA strand, effectively blocking the reverse transcriptase activity and thus the replication of the virus.

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