Question

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
The sexual phase in the life cycle of Plasmodium occurs in the:

• A. liver cells of man
• B. gut of the mosquito
• C. salivary glands of the mosquito
• D. body cavity of the mosquito

Answer 1

The correct option is B gut of the mosquito

Asexual reproduction takes place in a human being and sexual reproduction takes place in the female mosquito, in the mosquito gut, the microgamete nucleus divides three times producing eight nuclei, each nucleus fertilizes a macrogamete forming a zygote. The zygote, after the fusion of nuclei and the fertilization, becomes the so-called ookinete.

So, the correct option is 'gut of the mosquito'.