(a) Write the specific name of the genus Plasmodium that causes one of the most serious types of diseases in humans. Name the disease.
(b) Describe the events in the life cycle of Plasmodium which takeplace in the female Anopheles.
(c) Explain what happens in the RBCs of the humans when Plasmodium gains entry into them. How does the human body getaffected?
a) The specific name of genus plasmodium that causes one of the most serious diseases in humans is Plasmodium falciparum (unicellular protozoan parasite)
It causes malaria in humans through the bite of Anopheles mosquito
c) Cycle of Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles mosquito –
It is a sexual reproduction
d) The cycle of plasmodium flasmodium falciparum in human body
It is asexual replication or reproduction
In the Erythrocytic stage, infected liver cell and releases merozoites
which then forms the zygote and then trophozoite (growing stage in sporozoan parasite) then forms the schizont (a cell that divides to form the daughter cell) , after that red cell ruptures and ultimately there is formation of gametocytes