Vectors can be defined as

Organisms carrying the infectious agents from a sick person to a healthy person

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Microorganisms which can cause many diseases

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Infected person

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Diseased plants

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Solution

The correct option is C Organisms carrying the infectious agents from a sick person to a healthy person
Vectors are the organisms, which carries the infectious agents from sick person to another healthy person. For example, mosquito carries malarial parasite from infected person to healthy person. Therefore, option A is correct.

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Q. Question 18
Vectors can be defined as

(a) animals carry the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person
(b) microorganisms which cause many diseases
(c) infected person
(d) diseased plants

Question 18
Vectors can be defined as

(a) animals carry the infecting agents from sick person to another healthy person
(b) microorganisms which cause many diseases
(c) infected person
(d) diseased plants

Communicable diseases can spread to a healthy person through disease-causing germs called ___.

Q. Intermediaries which carry disease causing microorganisms from one person to another are called vectors.

__ are the organisms that help in the spread of a disease from an infected person to a healthy person by carrying the disease-causing pathogens.

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