Zidovudine (azt) is a drug used to treat patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids). azt works by blocking the reverse transcriptase enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), the causative agent of aids. what type of transposable elements would be affected by azt and what would be the most likely effect?

Zidovudine is a type of HIV drug that blocks the reverse transcriptase, an enzyme used by viruses to reverse-transcribe their RNA into a DNA strand that they can integrate with the host's genome. Viruses only have fragments of RNA strands that are translated into DNA using the reverse transcriptase. The fragments of DNA material from the virus acts like retrotransposons. Because Zidovudine blocks the action of the reverse transcriptase, the body can halt the proliferation of the HIV.

  a. chromosomes are duplicated before cell division so that each new daughter cell has a complete set