reproducing both ways

• MALARIA PARASITE REPRODUCTION IN HUMANS

  1. mosquito carrying plasmodium (parasite) bites human releasing plasmodium into their blood stream
  2. plasmodium makes it way into the liver cells where it reproduces asexually by mitosis producing diploid cells
  3. Liver cells eventually burst and diploid cells make there way into the red blood cells where they continue to reproduce asexually
• MALARIA PARASITE REPRODUCTION IN MOSQUITOES:

  1. another mosquito with plasmodium in saliva bites human with malaria
  2. temperature difference between saliva and human body triggers MEIOSIS
  3. red blood cells bust inside mosquito and plasmodium fuses with the plasmodium inside saliva
  4. forms a new variant of malaria
  5. which is injected into the next human the mosquito bites