Multiple choice

Miracidium larva is found in the life-cycle of:

  1. tapeworm

  2. roundworm

  3. earthworm

  4. liverfluke
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Explanation

Miracidium is the ciliated larval stage that hatches from eggs of trematodes like liver fluke. It must infect a snail host to continue the life cycle. Tapeworms have oncosphere larvae, roundworms have direct development, and earthworms are annelids without parasitic larval stages.

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