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MCQ 521 Mark
The state of complete physical, social and mental well being is called:
  • A
    Disease$-$free state
  • B
    Health
  • Poor health
  • D
    Ill health
Answer
Correct option: C.
Poor health
The $\text{WHO}$ defines health as a state of “complete physical, mental and social well$-$being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
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MCQ 531 Mark
Pick out the correct reason why only female mosquitoes act as vectors and bite human beings:
  • They need human blood proteins to make their eggs.
  • B
    They need more blood in their body.
  • C
    They are stronger than the males.
  • D
    Female mosquitos are more attracted to human beings than males.
Answer
Correct option: A.
They need human blood proteins to make their eggs.
The female mosquito is the one that bites $($males feed on flower nectar$)$. She requires blood to produce eggs. Her mouthparts are constructed so that they pierce the skin, literally sucking the blood out. Her saliva lubricates the opening.
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MCQ 541 Mark
$T.B.$ is cured by:
  • A
    Griseofulvin.
  • B
    Ubiquinone.
  • Streptomycin.
  • D
    encitol.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Streptomycin.
Streptomycin is derived from the actinobacterium Streptomyces griseus. It inhibits protein synthesis and causes the death of microbial cells. It is a useful broad$-$spectrum antibiotic.
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MCQ 551 Mark
Which of the following are infectious diseases:
  • Chickenpox, tuberculosis
  • B
    Dengue. Down syndrome
  • C
    Chikungunya, cleft palate
  • D
    Cancer, tuberculosis
Answer
Correct option: A.
Chickenpox, tuberculosis
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MCQ 561 Mark
What is the process of curing infection called?
  • A
    Principle of prevention
  • Principle of treatment
  • C
    Principle of transmission of infection
  • D
    None of the above
Answer
Correct option: B.
Principle of treatment
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MCQ 571 Mark
What is the importance of childhood immunisation programmes?
  • A
    These programmes give protection only when the child reaches adult stage.
  • These programmes give lifelong protection against several infectious diseases.
  • C
    These progremmes give temporary protection against diseases.
  • D
    These programmes improve the health of some children.
Answer
Correct option: B.
These programmes give lifelong protection against several infectious diseases.
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MCQ 581 Mark
Which one of the following is not important for individual health?
  • A
    Living in clean space.
  • B
    Good economic condition.
  • C
    Social equality and harmony.
  • Living in a large and well furnished house.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Living in a large and well furnished house.
Health comes from healthy habits. Healthy habits like eating regular fresh meals, personal and social hygiene, adequate rest and sleep with exercise leads to balanced state of health and mind.
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MCQ 591 Mark
Transmission of diseases can be _______:
  • A
    Coordinated
  • Both $C$ and $D$
  • C
    Direct
  • D
    Indirect
Answer
Correct option: B.
Both $C$ and $D$

The disease can be transmitted directly or indirectly depending on the surrounding factors.
Direct transmission - An infectious agent is transferred from a source to a host by direct contact or droplet spread.
Indirect transmission - It occurs when there is no direct human-to-human contact. This mode of transmission needs a vector to transmit the disease.
Example-
Indirect: - Air, Water, Soil, etc.
Direct: - Handshake, Sexual contact, etc.

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MCQ 601 Mark
Contaminated water is a rich source of:
  • A
    Cholera
  • B
    Typhoid
  • C
    All of these
  • Both $A$ and $B$
Answer
Correct option: D.
Both $A$ and $B$
Cholera is caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. A person gets cholera by drinking water or eating food infected with the bacterium. Once swallowed, it settles in the lining of the small bowel and releases a toxin (poison) that can cause the body to flush liquid into the small bowel, resulting in watery diarrhoea. Typhoid fever is an acute illness associated with fever caused by the Salmonella typhi bacteria. The bacteria spread through contaminated food or water and occasionally through direct contact with someone who is infected.
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MCQ 611 Mark
A protozoan disease is:
  • A
    Sleeping sickness.
  • B
    Kala$-$azar.
  • C
    Malaria.
  • All the above.
Answer
Correct option: D.
All the above.
Protozoan infections are parasitic diseases caused by organisms formerly classified in the Kingdom Protozoa. They include organisms classified in Amoebozoa, Excavata and Chromalveolata.
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MCQ 621 Mark
If you live in an overcrowded and poorly ventilated house, it is possible that you may suffer from:
  • A
    Cancer
  • B
    $\text{AIDS}$
  • Air borne diseases
  • D
    Cholera
Answer
Correct option: C.
Air borne diseases
 
  1. Many microbial agents can commonly move from an affected person to someone else in a variety of ways. Such disease$-$causing microbes can spread through the air.
  2. This occurs through the little droplets thrown out by an infected person who sneezes or coughs. Someone standing close by can breathe in these droplets, and the microbes get a chance to start a new infection.
  3. Examples of such diseases spread through the air are the common cold, pneumonia and tuberculosis.
  4. Obviously, the more crowded our living conditions are, the more likely it is that such airborne diseases will spread.
  5. Cancer is non$-$communicable, $\text{AIDS}$ spreads via body fluids, and cholera spreads through infected water.
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MCQ 631 Mark
Deliberately injecting weak microbes into a healthy body and producing antibodies to fight against strong microbes is called:
  • A
    Medication
  • B
    Antibiotics
  • Vaccination
  • D
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: C.
Vaccination
c. Vaccination
Explanation:
Vaccination involves an injection of dead or weak microbes in a healthy body to invoke an immune response in these individuals so that memory cells are formed which prepare the body for any further encounters with the same microbe. The second response is so strong that in most cases the disease does not occur.
Medications are drugs used for treating a symptom or disease.
Antibiotics are drugs against common pathogenic diseases like bacteria diseases.
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MCQ 641 Mark
We should not allow mosquitoes to breed in our surroundings because they:
  • A
    Multiply very fast and cause pollution.
  • Are vectors for many diseases.
  • C
    Bite and cause skin diseases.
  • D
    Are not important insects.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Are vectors for many diseases.
Here are some of the mosquito$-$borne diseases that you should be aware of:
  1. Malaria Caused by a parasite Plasmodium, this disease is transmitted via bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes.
  2. Dengue fever.
  3. Chikungunya.
  4. Zika fever.
  5. Lymphatic filariasis $($elephantiasis$).$
  6. Japanese Encephalitis.
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MCQ 651 Mark
Antibiotics are not effective in:
  • A
    Fungal infection
  • B
    Bacterial infection
  • Viral infection
  • D
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: C.
Viral infection
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MCQ 661 Mark
A patient suffering from a chronic disease:
  • Suffers from disease for a very long period
  • B
    Has abrupt attack of disease
  • C
    Suffers from disease for short period
  • D
    Both $B$ and $C$
Answer
Correct option: A.
Suffers from disease for a very long period

A chronic condition is a severe disturbance in the metabolism of the body which is long lasting. The term chronic is usually applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months. Such chronic disease cannot be cured easily.

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MCQ 671 Mark
Identify the wrongly$-$matched pair from among the following:
  • A
    Kala$-$azar $–$ Protozoa
  • B
    Hepatitis $–$ Virus
  • Filariasis $-$ Protozoa
  • D
    Cholera $–$ Bacteria
Answer
Correct option: C.
Filariasis $-$ Protozoa
Filariasis is an infectious tropical disease caused by any one of several thread$-$like parasitic round worms. The two species of worms most often associated with this disease are Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi. The larval form of the parasite transmits the disease to humans by the bite of a mosquito.
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MCQ 681 Mark
Jaundice is a disease of:
  • A
    kidney.
  • Liver.
  • C
    Pancreas.
  • D
    Duodenum.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Liver.
Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a yellowish or greenish pigmentation of the skin and whites of the eyes due to high bilirubin levels. It affects liver.
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MCQ 691 Mark
Rejection of transplanted organ is prevented by regular use of:
  • Cyclosporin
  • B
    Calcitonin
  • C
    Thrombin
  • D
    Pyroxin
Answer
Correct option: A.
Cyclosporin
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MCQ 701 Mark
Suzan’s grandfather is suffering from tuberculosis. In which category will you put his disease?
  • A
    Chronic and acute both.
  • B
    She cannot predict anything from this information.
  • Chronic.
  • D
    Acute.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Chronic.
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MCQ 711 Mark
You are aware of Polio Eradication Programme in your city. Children are vaccinated because:
  • A
    Vaccination kills the polio causing microorganisms.
  • B
    Prevents the entry of polio causing organism.
  • C
    I creates immunity in the body.
  • All the above.
Answer
Correct option: D.
All the above.

It is possible to prevent polio by stimulating your immune system with vaccination. Vaccinating individuals, especially young children, can establish lifelong immunity to the disease. The inactivated polio vaccine needs to be given at $2, 4,$ and between $6$ and $18$ months of age with a booster between ages $4-6.$

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MCQ 721 Mark
Which of the following is not a symptom of any disease?
  • Meningitis
  • B
    Headache
  • C
    Cough
  • D
    Swelling
Answer
Correct option: A.
Meningitis
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MCQ 731 Mark
Health is defined as $.......:$
  • State of complete physical, mental and social well being
  • B
    Absence of disease or infirmity
  • C
    Losing of body weight
  • D
    Increase in body weight
Answer
Correct option: A.
State of complete physical, mental and social well being
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MCQ 741 Mark
Hemophilia is a:
  • A
    Acute disease.
  • B
    Deficiency disease.
  • C
    Chronic disease.
  • Congenital disease.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Congenital disease.

Hemophilia is a rare disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally because it lacks sufficient blood-clotting proteins $($clotting factors$).$ Hemophilia $A,$ also called factor $VIII\ (FVIII)$ deficiency or classic hemophilia, is a genetic disorder caused by missing or defective factor $VIII,$ a clotting protein.

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MCQ 751 Mark
Choose the odd one out from the list of diseases given below wit their causative agent.
  • A
    Measles.
  • B
    Rabies.
  • C
    Smallpox.
  • Pneumonia.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Pneumonia.
Pneumonia is a lung disease characterized by inflammation of the airspaces in the lungs, most commonly due to an infection.
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MCQ 761 Mark
Viruses, which cause hepatitis, are transmitted through:
  • A
    Air
  • B
    Water
  • C
    Food
  • Personal contact
Answer
Correct option: D.
Personal contact
You can get it through contact with the blood or body fluids of an infected person. In the $U.S.,$ it's most often spread through unprotected sex. It's also possible to get hepatitis $B$ by sharing an infected person's needles, razors, or toothbrush. And an infected mother can pass the virus to her baby during childbirth.
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MCQ 771 Mark
Health is $.....:$
  • A
    Weight of body according to height
  • B
    Absence of disease or infirmity
  • State of complete physical, mental and social well being
  • D
    None of these
Answer
Correct option: C.
State of complete physical, mental and social well being
Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well$-$being. It depends on three parameters physical, mental and social.
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MCQ 781 Mark
Making anti $-$ viral drugs is more difficult than making anti $-$ bacterial medicines because
  • Viruses make use of host machinery.
  • B
    Viruses are on the border line of living and non $-$ living.
  • C
    Viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own.
  • D
    Viruses have a protein coat.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Viruses make use of host machinery.
Designing safe and effective antiviral drug is difficult because viruses use the host’s cell to replicate. This makes it difficult to find the exact targets where the drug can interfere with the virus without harming the host organism.
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MCQ 791 Mark
Which of the following infectious agents is listed in “Emerging Infectious Diseases”, a journal of $CDC:$
  • A
    Leishmania.
  • B
    Staphylococcus.
  • C
    Ascaris.
  • $SARS$ virus.
Answer
Correct option: D.
$SARS$ virus.

Given the current size and mobility of the human population, emerging diseases pose a continuing threat to global health. This threat became reality with the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome $(SARS).$

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MCQ 801 Mark
Reducing the effect of the disease involves:
  • A
    Use of medicine to reduce fever or pain
  • B
    Complete rest to conserve energy
  • C
    Use a remedy that will kill the cause of disease
  • All of the above
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of the above
Depending on the symptoms of the disease, the medicine will reduce fever and pain. And resting will conserve the energy of the patient. Any remedy that could kill the reason of the disease will help to reduce the effect of the disease.
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MCQ 811 Mark
Which of the following is the literal meaning of disease?
  • A
    Being happy
  • B
    Being unaware
  • Being uncomfortable
  • D
    Being uncomplicated
Answer
Correct option: C.
Being uncomfortable
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MCQ 821 Mark
Antibiotics do not work against viral infections because:
  • A
    Viruses live only inside host cells.
  • Viruses do not have metabolic pathways of their own.
  • C
    Viruses are resistant to antibiotics.
  • D
    The protein coat of viruses acts as a barrier to the antib.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Viruses do not have metabolic pathways of their own.
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MCQ 831 Mark
Direct transmission of diseases can take place in the following ways:
  • A
    Sexual contact
  • B
    Contamination of food and water
  • C
    Air
  • All of the above
Answer
Correct option: D.
All of the above
Direct transmission is for communicable and contagious diseases. It is spread from one infected person to the host. It can be due to direct sexual contact, through the air in the form of sneezing or coughing, through contaminated food and water via faecal matter etc.
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MCQ 841 Mark
A person is said to be healthy only when he is free from disease:
  • A
    True
  • False
  • C
    Ambiguous
  • D
    Data insufficient
Answer
Correct option: B.
False
According to $\text{WHO}$ health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being of a person and not just absence of disease.
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MCQ 851 Mark
Complete the analogy given below and choose the correct option. Typhoid $:$ Bacterial disease $:$ Polio.
  • A
    Protozoan.
  • B
    Bacterial disease.
  • Viral disease.
  • D
    Worm disease.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Viral disease.
Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease. It is caused by the poliovirus.
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MCQ 861 Mark
The term 'Health' is defined in many ways. The most accurate definition of health would be:
  • A
    Health is the state of body and mind in a balanced condition.
  • B
    Health is the reflection of a smiling face.
  • Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well$-$being.
  • D
    Health is the symbol of economic prosperity.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well$-$being.
Even if a person is physically fit, a lack of mental or social wellbeing will hamper the quality of life of an individual.
So, health can be best defined as 'A state of complete physical, mental and social well$-$being '.
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MCQ 871 Mark
Which one of the following is not a bacterial disease?
  • A
    Cholera.
  • B
    Tuberculosis.
  • C
    Anthrax.
  • Influenza.
Answer
Correct option: D.
Influenza.
Influenza is a viral disease.
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MCQ 881 Mark
Which one of the following causes kala$-$azar?
  • A
    Ascaris
  • B
    Trypanosoma
  • Leishmama
  • D
    Bacteria
Answer
Correct option: C.
Leishmama
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MCQ 891 Mark
Which of the following causes infectious diseases?
  • A
    Pollutants
  • B
    Harmful lifestyle
  • C
    Inheritance
  • Microorganisms
Answer
Correct option: D.
Microorganisms
Pollutants are the harmful oxides or chemicals which degrade the quality of the environment and causes pollution.
Harmful lifestyle affects the metabolic process of the body and lead to severe diseases and also causes ageing.
Inheritance is the transfer of characters from the parents to offsprings.
Microorganisms are the small microorganism which are not visible to naked eye and are responsible for infectious disease.
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MCQ 901 Mark
What is air$-$borne transmission?
  • A
    Particles containing no organisms are spread
  • Particles containing organisms which can remain in air for long time
  • C
    Particles containing organisms which can remain in air for short time
  • D
    None of the above
Answer
Correct option: B.
Particles containing organisms which can remain in air for long time
Particles containing organisms which can remain in air for long time Solution $:-$ Dust particles containing microorganisms which can remain in air for longer duration of time results in airborne transmission. They must be resistant to drying and can survive for long outside the body.
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MCQ 911 Mark
Is the commonest carrier of pathogens:
  • A
    Mosquito.
  • Housefly.
  • C
    Helminth.
  • D
    None of these.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Housefly.
Flies collect pathogens on their legs and mouths when females lay eggs on decomposing organic matter such as feces, garbage and animal corpses. House flies carry diseases on their legs and the small hairs that cover their bodies. It takes only a matter of seconds for them to transfer these pathogens to food or touched surfaces. Mature house flies also use saliva to liquefy solid food before feeding on it. During this process, they transfer the pathogens first collected by landing on offal. Diseases carried by house flies include typhoid, cholera and dysentery.
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MCQ 921 Mark
Chronic disease means it:
  • Lasts for a long time
  • B
    Occurs from the time of birth
  • C
    Lasts for a short time
  • D
    Both $B$ and $C$
Answer
Correct option: A.
Lasts for a long time

A chronic condition is a condition where the metabolism of the body is severely disturbed and it lasts for a longer duration.
They maybe present from birth.
Common chronic diseases include arthritis, asthma, cancer, $COPD$, diabetes, and viral diseases such as hepatitis $C$ and $HIV/ AIDS.$

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MCQ 931 Mark
$AIDS$ is due to:
  • Reduction to number of helper $T-$cells.
  • B
    Reduction in number of killer $T-$cells.
  • C
    Autoimmunity.
  • D
    Non-production.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Reduction to number of helper $T-$cells.

White blood cells are an important part of the immune system. HIV infects and destroys certain white blood cells called $\mathrm{CD}_{4^{+}}$ cells. If too many $\mathrm{CD}_{4^{+}}$ cells are destroyed, the body can no longer defend itself against infection.

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MCQ 941 Mark
Congenital diseases are those which:
  • A
    Are deficiency diseases.
  • Are present from time of birth.
  • C
    Are spread from man to man.
  • D
    Occur during life time.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Are present from time of birth.
A congenital disorder, also known as a congenital disease, deformity, birth defect, or anomaly, is a condition existing at or before birth regardless of cause.
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MCQ 951 Mark
..... is defined as physical, mental and social well-being and comfort:
  • Health
  • B
    Disease
  • C
    Fit
  • D
    All of the above
Answer
Correct option: A.
Health

Health depends on three parameters - physical, mental, and social well-being.
According to $WHO,$ health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”

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MCQ 961 Mark
Which one of the following is not a bacterial disease?
  • A
    Cholera
  • B
    Tuberculosis
  • C
    Anthrax
  • Influenza
Answer
Correct option: D.
Influenza
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MCQ 971 Mark
The process in which the active immune system employs many cells to the affected tissue, is called:
  • A
    Infection
  • B
    Infestation
  • C
    Invasion
  • Inflammation
Answer
Correct option: D.
Inflammation
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MCQ 981 Mark
Pain in abdomen is:
  • Symptom.
  • B
    Sign.
  • C
    Cause.
  • D
    Effect.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Symptom.
If pain is often caused by problems in a particular organ. The most common cause of localized pain is stomach ulcers $($open sores on the inner lining of the stomach$).$ Cramp$-$like pain may be associated with diarrhea, constipation, bloating, or flatulence.
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MCQ 991 Mark
Which is not a contributory cause of a person acquiring a water borne disease?
  • A
    Lack of sufficient food.
  • B
    Attack by bacteria.
  • Genetic susceptibility to the disease.
  • D
    Lack of clean drinking water.
Answer
Correct option: C.
Genetic susceptibility to the disease.
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MCQ 1001 Mark
Sleeping sickness is caused by $........$ a protozoan.
  • Trypanosoma
  • B
    Euglena
  • C
    Plasmodium
  • D
    Amoeba
Answer
Correct option: A.
Trypanosoma
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