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Asexual life cycle of Plasmodium is completed in

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Human body
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Female Culex mosquito
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C
Male Anopheles mosquito
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Female Anopheles mosquito
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Solution

The correct option is C Human body
After invading the hepatocyte, the parasite undergoes an asexual replication. This replicative stage is often called exoerythrocytic or pre-erythrocytic schizogony. Schizogony refers to a replicative process in which the parasite undergoes multiple rounds of nuclear division without cytoplasmic division, followed by a budding, or segmentation, to form progeny. The progeny, called merozoites, are released into the circulatory system following rupture of the host hepatocyte.
Thus, the correct answer is option (A), 'Man body'.

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