You wish to design a drug that acts against a recently identified retrovirus. Based upon what you know about retroviruses, which of the following would be the best target for specifically interrupting the viral life cycle in eukaryotic cells?

A) primase
B) 30S ribosomal subunits
C) reverse transcriptase
D) RNA polymerase
E) DNA polymerase


Answer: C

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