Question

Name the stages of Plasmodium.
i) Introduced by an infected Anopheles mosquito.
ii) Picked up by Anopheles mosquito from an infected human being.

Answer 1

i) When the mosquito infects a human being, it inoculates sporozoites.

ii) When a mosquito has a blood meal, it ingests gametocytes (microgametocytes and macrogametocytes) which then form zygotes in the stomach of the mosquito.