Assume that you ate a salad that contained some compounds that upset your stomach but still managed to be absorbed and eventually moved into liver cells. The plant compounds are noxious and potentially toxic to the liver cells

Which organelle in the liver cells would be expected to target and detoxify the plant compounds? A) ribosome
B) mitochondrion
C) peroxisome
D) centriole
E) nucleolus


C

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