Meaning & use
Sporozoa
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A group of parasitic, single-celled protozoans that reproduce by forming spores, including the organisms that cause malaria.
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The biology lecture covered Sporozoa and their complex life cycles inside host cells.
Plasmodium, the parasite responsible for malaria, belongs to the Sporozoa.
A note on using this word
The term comes from Greek "sporos" (seed) and "zoon" (animal); modern taxonomy largely replaces it with the name Apicomplexa.
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Apicomplexa
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