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in euglena,paramecium,plasmodium,tripanasoma- which one is odd and why?
The members of (sporozoans)group share an "apical complex" of microtubules at one end of the cell (hence the name that many prefer to the old name of sporozoans). All the members of the phylum are parasites.

The genus Plasmodium causes malaria, one of the greatest scourges of humans. There are 4 species that infect humans of which Plasmodium falciparum is the most dangerous. Malaria has probably caused more human deaths than any other infectious disease; even today it is estimated to kill a million people a year in the sub-Saharan Africa.
The organism is transmitted from human to human through the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Plasmodium, Toxoplasma, and some of the other members of this group contain a membrane-enclosed organelle called the apicoplast.They have a varied life cycle .


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