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The role of active cytotoxic t cells is to attack _____. see concept 43.3 (page)

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The answer would be: body cells that have been infected

Cytotoxic comes from word cyto- which mean cells and toxic which mean poison. That means cytotoxic cells will be poisonous to the cells. Cytotoxic t cells roles are to attack cells that infected by pathogens. Some pathogens hide inside the cells so that they won't captured by the leucocytes.
Cytotoxic t cells destroy such cells so the pathogens inside them could be killed.
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