life cycle of malaria-protists

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  • Protists, or protozoa, are eukaryotes
  • Protists are single-celled organisms
  • Protists can be parasitic, living on or inside another organism causing harm
  • Protists can be animal-like, plant-like, or fungi-like
  • Malaria is a well-known illness caused by protists and transmitted by mosquitos
  • Sleep under a mosquito net to prevent mosquitoes from biting humans in their sleep
  • Sleeping under a mosquito net makes it harder for mosquitoes to reach humans through the net
  • Using insecticide can also be effective in killing mosquitoes
  • Symptoms of malaria include:
    • fever
    • diarrhoea
    • muscle pains
    • vomiting
  • life cycle of malaria:
    • mosquito carries the malaria but the malaria doesn't affect it
    • scientists call the mosquito a vector because it carries the pathogen from one person to another
    • mosquito bites the human passing the malaria onto them, mosquito does this to et the humans blood
    • saliva of the mosquito gets into the human resulting in the human now having it in their blood which then travels down to the liver