<prompt> Please answer with one of the option in the bracket. Write reasoning in between . Write answer in between .Q:A 38-year-old man is admitted to the hospital because of fever, yellowing of the skin, and nausea for 1 day. He recently returned from a backpacking trip to Brazil and Paraguay, during which he had a 3-day episode of high fever that resolved spontaneously. Physical examination shows jaundice, epigastric tenderness, and petechiae over his trunk. Five hours after admission, he develops dark brown emesis and anuria. Despite appropriate lifesaving measures, he dies. Postmortem liver biopsy shows eosinophilic degeneration of hepatocytes with condensed nuclear chromatin. This patients hepatocytes were most likely undergoing which of the following processes?? A: Necrosis, B: Regeneration, C: Apoptosis, D: Proliferation, E: Steatosis,  <response>: This is a question about a patient with symptoms of fever, jaundice, nausea, and petechiae after returning from a trip to Brazil and Paraguay. The description of dark brown emesis, anuria, and death despite lifesaving measures indicates fulminant liver failure. The liver biopsy finding of eosinophilic degeneration of hepatocytes with condensed chromatin is characteristic of apoptosis. This clinical presentation is most consistent with fulminant hepatitis from a viral infection acquired during his recent travel. The hepatocytes undergoing apoptosis are most likely due to direct infection and cytotoxic effects of the virus.C: Apoptosis 