135.The part of life cycle of malarial parasite Plasmodium vivax, that is passed in female Anopheles is (a) sexual cycle (b) preerythrocytic schizogony (c) exoerythrocytic schizogony (d) posterythrocytic schizogony.
Option A Plasmodium has two hosts. (i) Female Anopheles mosquito : Here the sexual phase of the malarial parasite occurs and it is considered the definitive host of malarial parasite. (ii) Human beings : Here the asexual phase of malarial parasite occurs. It is considered as the intermediate host. Options (b), (c) and (d) are the stages of the asexual phase of Plasmodium.
