To remove a potential toxin from the body requires the use of an energy consumptive process. At the cellular level this process relies on the following steps:
a) absorption from the blood stream of toxin;
b) inter-cellular acquisition of toxin by an active transport mechanism;
c) dephosphorylation of the toxin by enzyme controlled system
d) inter cellular removal of harmless end products by exocytosis.
1. Which lettered activity did not required energy and why?
2) Name the organelles and the functions required of them for C and D to take place
3) If the cell had mitochondrial deficits, which letter activity compromised?