Who discovered Plasmodium in R.B.C of human beings?

Ronald Ross

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Mendel

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Laveran

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Stephens

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Solution

The correct option is B Laveran
Plasmodium was first identified when Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran described parasites in the blood of malaria patients in 1880. He named the parasite Oscillaria malariae.
Hence the correct option is C.

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