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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Humans do not have any organelles similar to apicoplasts, and therefore a drug targeting the functioning of apicoplasts would not affect human cells.

How Might Drugs That Interfere with the Functioning of the Apicoplast