How Might Drugs That Interfere with the Functioning of the Apicoplast

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Multiple Choice

How might drugs that interfere with the functioning of the apicoplast in the malaria-causing protist probably not be harmful to humans?

• A) the drugs would kill the protist before it infected a human
• B) the drug would prevent the protist from photosynthesizing which is its energy source
• C) humans never evolved photosynthetic organelles and thus would be unaffected by a drug targeting that type of organelle
• D) humans already have resistance to apicoplast drugs
• E) any drug that would prevent the functioning of apicoplasts would not work in a human system

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