5.7- HIV

Question 1

What does HIV stand for?

Answer 1

Human immunodifficiecy virus

Question 2

What type of virus is HIV and why?

Answer 2

A retrovirus as HIV contains reverse transcriptase to make DNA from RNA

Question 3

What can HIV develop into?

Answer 3

AIDS- Aquired immune deficiency syndrome

Question 4

What does HIV do?

Answer 4

Attacks the immune system (Usually B cells) and replicates inside them to create more HIV virus’s, causing the immune system to stop working