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How are biological vectors responsible for malaria and gastroenteritis?
A vector in biology may be an organism that transports the pathogen. Malaria is caused by a parasite which is spread through mosquito saliva. A vector for gastroenteritis is normally contaminated food or water.
Is malaria communicable or non-communicable?
Malaria is a vector based disease and is considered highly communicable, meaning it can be spread, though not easily from human to human. a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself but which spreads infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another.
What is a vector and name an animal that is vector?
A vector is an organism that transmits infectious diseases from one host to another. An example of a vector animal is the mosquito, which can transmit diseases such as malaria and dengue fever through its bite.
What is vector in biology?
A vector in Biology is a carrier /transporter of a virus fungi or bacteria. For example a plasmid is a vector that carries genetic information to a cell, and the mosquito is the vector of the malaria causing parasite.
What is disease vector?
A vector is simply an organisms which serves to carry or transport a disease, for example the mosquito (an arthropod) carrying the protozoan malaria parasite. Hence a non-arthropod vector would be a vector outside phylum Arthropoda, for instance, a dog (a vertebrate, from phylum Chordata) carrying the rabies virus.
Is mosquito a vector?
I would say yes, as it can carries Malaria.
An organism such as an insect that transmits pathogens?
An organism such as an insect that transmits pathogens is referred to as a vector. Vectors can transmit diseases such as malaria, Zika virus, and Lyme disease by carrying pathogens from one host to another. Controlling vector populations is crucial in preventing the spread of these diseases.
What is the name given to such organism that transmit the diseases from infected to healthy person?
We call this a pathogen. Path- means disease while -gen means to make.
What is the name of an animal vector that spreads malaria?
mosquito's
What is an object that transfers a pathogen from one organism to another?
A vector is an object that transfers a pathogen from one organism to another. Vectors can be organisms like insects or animals that carry and transmit diseases such as mosquitoes spreading malaria. They are important in the transmission of infectious diseases between hosts.
Is malaria multicellular?
Malaria is a disease - it isn't an organism. However, the protozoan that causes malaria is unicellular.
What is the vector that aids in the transmission of malaria?
female anopheles mosquito
