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The main reason HIV becomes resistant to drugs is:

HAART for the treatment of HIV includes drugs that do all of the following except:

Today, an HIV infected individual can live approximately an additional 40 – 50 years because of the success in HAART therapy.

Following an HIV infection, the first marker that rises in the serum of a patient within 2 weeks post infection is:

In the replication cycle of HIV, which of the following happens directly after reverse transcription?

Which of the following is a mis-match?

  CHOOSE ONLY ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER. ONLY ONE. a.Why is HAART therapy prefered to monotherapy in HIV treatment? Explain what HAART is.   b. Explain why HIV cannot be cured? A handful of people have been cured, HOW?   c. Give three differences between HIV-1 and HIV-2. Where in the world did HIV-2 originate from?

AZT:

Which term describes the cells of a human embryo with 3 sets of chromosomes?

A gene is maternally imprinted. Kate receives a normal allele from her father and the affected (mutated) allele from her mother. What is the probability that Kate will have the affected phenotype?