Question

Sexual reproduction of Plasmodium takes place in

• A. Plasma of man
• B. Liver cells of man
• C. Mosquito body
• D. Human RBC

Answer 1

The correct option is C Mosquito body

Plasmodium is the protozoan that causes malaria. The pathogen completes its life cycle in mosquito and humans. The primary host is mosquitoes and the secondary host is humans. The sexual reproductive phase of this pathogen occurs in the body of the mosquito. When a mosquito sucks human blood, it injects the sporozoite into the human blood which then resides in the human body and forms merozoite which are the major cause of malarial fever in humans.

So, the correct answer is option C.