Multiple Choice
Malaria is caused by a protist parasite.During its life cycle, the protist lives and reproduces inside the human liver and blood cells.When the Anopheles mosquito bites an infected human, it ingests the parasites; it later injects them into another human when it feeds again.In this disease cycle, how would the malarial parasite and the mosquito be classified?
A) Both are microparasites.
B) Both are macroparasites.
C) Both are endoparasites, but the malarial parasite is much smaller.
D) The malarial parasite is a macroparasite; the mosquito is a microparasite.
E) The malarial parasite is a microparasite; the mosquito is a macroparasite.
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