<prompt> A patient who wanted to go skiing in the Rockies took a medication to combat altitude sickness. A graph of this medications mechanism of inhibition is shown. What type of inhibitor is this medication?CompetitiveNon-competitiveIrreversibleAllosteric  <response>: In noncompetitive inhibition, the Km is not altered, whereas the Vmax is decreased. The drug used to treat altitude sickness is acetazolamide, which is a noncompetitive inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase. The graph is one of a pure noncompetitive inhibitor. 