Carrier of malaria causing protozoan is

Female Anopheles mosquito

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Cockroach

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Housefly

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Butterfly

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Solution

The correct option is A Female Anopheles mosquito
Female Anopheles mosquito, when bites patient of malaria, then the malarial parasite pass to mosquito through blood sucking. The parasite develops and reproduces inside mosquito's body. When a mosquito bites again another healthy person then parasites mix with its saliva and pass into the blood of the person being bitten. So, the correct answer is option A.

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