Question

Based on the given drug, which microbe is affected by if?

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QUESTION 2 Below is the name of antimicrobial agent (drug). Based on the description of the drug listed below, check off all the microbes that could potentially be directly targeted by that agent. (Note these are not real drugs. Use the descriptions to determine which microbes could target.) provasic: denatures the enzyme reverse transcriptase bacteria prions protozoa fung helminths ✓ viruses fung

Answer 1

Bacteria

Virus

Retroviruses such as HIV-1 ( Human immunodeficiency virus-1) contain copies of single stranded RNA molecule, after entering the host cell RNA is copied into DNA through the action of viral enzyme reverse transcriptase. Now the resulting DNA can be incorporated into the chromosomal DNA of host and replicated along with other cellular DNA.

VIRAL RNA REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASC SYNTHESIS OF DNA COMPLEMENTARY TORNA DNA - RNA HYBRID Digestion RNA of REVERSE "TRANSCRIPTASE DNA "TRANSCRIPT OF VIRAL RNA SYNTHESIS OF | REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE SECOND STRAND OF RNA DOUBLE HELICAL VIRAL. DNA

Reverse transcriptase inhibitor drugs act by inhibiting RNA virus replication by reversible inhibition of viral HIV reverse transcriptase.

Recently in some species of bacteria such as Myxobacteria and E. coli reverse transcriptase enzyme was discovered.