KROK 1 2007 – Question 12 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
According to the data of WHO, for about 250 mln of Earth population fall ill with malaria. This disease is mostly spread in tropical and subtropical regions. Range of its spread falls into the areal of the following mosquitoes:
- A. Mansonia
- B. Culex
- C. Anopheles
- D. Aedes
- E. Culiseta
Hint
Recall which genus of mosquito serves as the definitive host of the malarial plasmodium; its females hold the abdomen tilted away from the surface when resting.
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