Chondrocytes are to cartilage as osteocytes are to:

Mitochondria is the cell organelle that produced the energy that is needed in the body system in form of atp, that is why it is called the power house of the cell. energy is needed by the living organisms to carry out the activities which sustain life.  if the mitochondria is destroyed atp will not be produced. if the mitochondria is destroyed, energy production will stop and the affected living organism will not have the energy to carry out the necessary life processes; this will lead to the death of the organism.

A) the sequence of bases would halt the production of any proteins. 

It might. it might because if you think about if they discovered if we came from (lets say something funny like aliens) and thy found cells that matched and they would have t do more research about it but would most probably change their theory.