Question

oxygen leaving your lungs as you read this is headed towards mitochondria where it will oxidize food fuels to form atp. some of that oxygen is also headed to another organelle that uses oxygen to detoxify harmful substances. that organelle is the ______. answer options: ribosome, peroxisome, lysosome, golgi apparatus, i dont know yet

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the functions of each organelle:

• Ribosome: Involved in protein synthesis, no detoxification or oxygen use for that.
• Peroxisome: Uses oxygen to detoxify harmful substances (like breaking down hydrogen peroxide).
• Lysosome: Digests waste with enzymes, not oxygen - based detoxification.
• Golgi apparatus: Modifies and packages proteins, no oxygen - related detoxification.

So the organelle that uses oxygen to detoxify is the peroxisome.

Answer:

B. peroxisome