Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305073951
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To determine: The group of children who was most attractive to mosquitoes.

Concept introduction: Plasmodium is one among the genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and the insects. They infect the humans who are prone to malarial infections. It is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito. The life cycle involves mosquito and human as hosts. During the blood meal, the malaria-infected mosquito inoculates the sporozoites into the human host. The sporozoite infects the liver cells and matures into schizonts that rupture and release the merozoites.

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