Question 6
The disease caused by a protozoan and spread by an insect is ___.

(a) dengue
(b) malaria
(c) polio
(d) measles

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Solution

(b) Malaria is caused by a protozoan plasmodium which invades the red blood cells and is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes.

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