________ carry the disease-causing organisms.

pathogens

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carriers

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Solution

The correct option is B carriers

Carriers are the organisms that carry pathogens or disease causing organisms from an infected person to the healthy person.

Species of mosquito, for example, female Aedes mosquito serve as vectors for the deadly disease Dengue.

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