Molnupiravir was the novel drug to show effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2. Molnupiravir disrupts the virus from making copies of itself. The structure of the drug is shown at right. a) What process in the virus do you think this molecule inhibits? b) Molnupiravir is chemically altered inside human cells to achieve its active form. How do you think it is changed? c) Unlike similar drugs, Molnupiravir does not act as a chain terminator in vitro; what in its structure indicates this?

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