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3 words match “SPOROZOITE”

SPOROZOITE n.
ne of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.
MALARIA PARASITE n.
o the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoites. An inde…
SCHIZONT n.
In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.