The First Class of Drugs Developed to Treat AIDS, Such

Multiple Choice

The first class of drugs developed to treat AIDS, such as AZT, were known as reverse transcriptase inhibitors. They worked because they ________.

A) targeted and destroyed the viral genome before it could be reverse transcribed into DNA
B) bonded to the dsDNA genome of the virus in such a way that it could not separate for replication to occur
C) bonded to the viral reverse transcriptase enzyme, thus preventing the virus from making a DNA copy of its RNA genome
D) prevented host cells from producing the enzymes used by the virus to replicate its genome