Given below are two statements: Statement I: When an infected female Anopheles mosquito bites, it releases gametocytes of Plasmodium into the healthy person. Statement II: The female Anopheles mosquito takes up sporozoites of Plasmodium with blood meal from an infected person, suffering from malaria.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
Statement I is incorrect because 'Plasmodium enters the human body as sporozoites (infectious form) through the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquito' Statement II is incorrect because the mosquito takes up the parasitic forms (gametocytes) from the human; the text clarifies that parasites 'multiply within them [mosquitoes] to form sporozoites', meaning sporozoites are the result of development inside the mosquito, not what is taken up
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