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In animal cells, lysosomes are the organelles in charge of digesting enzymes with
nutrients that the cell consumes. If all the lysosomes in a cell were to break, what would
would initially happen to the cell?
A. Molecules within it would degrade.
B. It would lose all the water in the cytoplasm.
C. There would be no
D. No proteins would form.
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