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HIV, the virus causes AIDS, depends on an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to multiply. Reverse transcriptase reads a molecule of RNA and creates a molecule of DNA from it. A molecule of AZT, the first drug approved to treat AIDS, has a shape very similar to (but a bit different than) that of the DNA base thymine. Propose a model for how AZT inhibits HIV.

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HIV is a decease that Is caused by sexual intercorse

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