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Why is it that a female anopheles mosquito is regarded as vector of malaria?

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Question added by Adele Adeyinka
Date Posted: 2016/01/28
Gulam Mustafa Ali Khan
by Gulam Mustafa Ali Khan , Science & English Teacher , Madina Mission School, Hyderabad, India.

The male anopheles mosquito feeds on nectar of flowers whereas the female anopheles mosquito is sanguivorous i.e. it feeds on the human blood. While sucking the blood, it passes the malarial parasite plasmodium into the human body and thus, spreads malaria.

the fertilization of the zygospore happen inside the mosquito body

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