Where will you look for the sporozoites of malarial parasite?

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Where will you look for the sporozoites of malarial parasite? (A) Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito (B) Salivary glands of freshly moulted female Anopheles mosquito (C) Spleen of infected humans (D) red blood corpuscles of humans suffering from malaria

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When a female Anopheles mosquito bites an infected person, Plasmodium enters the mosquito's body and undergoes further development. The parasites multiply within them to form sporozoites that are stored in their salivary glands.

Q. Where will you look for the sporozoites of malarial parasite?

Saliva of infected female Anopheles mosquito

Salivary glands of freshly moulted female Anopheles mosquito

Spleen of infected humans

red blood corpuscles of humans suffering from malaria

When a female Anopheles mosquito bites an infected person, Plasmodium enters the mosquito's body and undergoes further development. The parasites multiply within them to form sporozoites that are stored in their salivary glands.