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The carrier of malaria-causing protozoan is:​

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  • Correct option: (a) female Anopheles mosquito.​
  • The carrier of malaria-causing protozoan (Plasmodium sp.), is the female Anopheles mosquito.​
  • When a female Anopheles mosquito bites a malaria patient, it carries the malaria-causing microbe in its body.​
  • When the mosquito bites a healthy person, the protozoans from the body get transmitted to the healthy person.​

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