Multiple choice

Which of the following organisms is carrier of Plasmodium vivax?

  1. Virus

  2. Amoeba

  3. Anopheles

  4. None

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The female Anopheles mosquito is the biological vector or carrier that transmits Plasmodium vivax, the parasite causing one type of malaria. The mosquito picks up the parasite from an infected human and injects it into a healthy person during feeding.

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