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Life Cycle of Plasmodium

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Describe the asexual and sexual phase of life cycle of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.

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Plasmodium completes its life cycle in two phases, asexual phase in human blood and sexual phase in mosquitoes. The complete life cycle is described by the given figure.

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