Sporozoans & Infectious Lifecycle — NEET Biology
✅ Asked in NEET 2018Select the wrong statement. NEET 2018
Select the wrong statement. NEET 2018
Answer & NCERT explanation
Correct answer: C — Pseudopodia are locomotory in sporozoans.
The statement about pseudopodia being locomotory in sporozoans is wrong. Sporozoans are non-motile parasites that lack pseudopodia for locomotion. Pseudopodia are found in organisms like Amoeba for movement. Sporozoans move through host tissues by gliding motion, not pseudopodia.
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Sporozoans: This includes diverse organisms that have an infectious spore-like stage in their life cycle. The most notorious is Plasmodium (malarial parasite) which causes malaria, a disease which has a staggering effect on human population.
Sporozoans are parasitic protozoans with a spore-like infectious stage, exemplified by Plasmodium causing malaria. NTA tests this to ensure students distinguish sporozoans from amoeboids—many wrongly assume sporozoans move via pseudopodia like amoebas do. The key difference is that sporozoans lack pseudopodia and instead have an obligate parasitic lifecycle with infectious stages transmitted to hosts. Remember: sporozoans = infectious spore stage + parasitic; Plasmodium specifically infects RBCs and is transmitted by mosquitoes, causing one of humanity's deadliest diseases. This concept remains testable for medical relevance and classification accuracy.
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