Which of the following groups of environmental factors are density-dependent?
Food, salinity, accumulation of metabolites, and light
Temperature, salinity predation, and disease
Food predation, disease, and accumulation of metabolites
Temperature, food, disease, and light
Correct answer is C
No explanation has been provided for this answer.
Drancunculiasis can be contacted through
eating contaminated food
drinking contaminated water
bathing in contaminated water
bites of blackfly
Correct answer is B
No explanation has been provided for this answer.
Habitats are generally classified into
biotic and abiotic
aquatic and terrestrial
aboreal and marine biomes
microhabitats and macrohabitats
Correct answer is B
No explanation has been provided for this answer.
Exo-erythrocytic phase of the life cycle of malaria parasite occurs in the
human liver
reticuloendothelial cells of humans
Malphigian tubules of mosquito
human brain
Correct answer is A
No explanation has been provided for this answer.
The vector of the malaria parasite is
female Aedes mosquito
female Anopheles mosquito
male Culex mosquito
female Culex mosquito
Correct answer is B
The blood stage parasites are those that cause the symptoms of malaria. When certain forms of blood stage parasites (gametocytes, which occur in male and female forms) are ingested during blood feeding by a female Anopheles mosquito.