Question

The pathogen causing African sleeping sickness belongs to

• A. Annelida
• B. Arthropoda
• C. Mollusca
• D. Protozoa

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Types of Protozoan protists:
I. Amoeboid protozoans: Amoeba (free-living), Entamoeba (parasitic)
II. Flagellated protozoans: Trypanosoma (Disease: African sleeping sickness)
III. Ciliated protozoans: Paramoecium
IV. Sporozoans: Plasmodium (malarial parasite)