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12. If research demonstrates that malaria cannot infect dogs, the author's claim that
mosquitoes are essential to the life-cycle of the malaria parasite would be:
A. definitively proved
B. slightly weakened but still possible
C. slightly strengthened but still dubious
D. clearly rebutted
E. largely unaffected

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If the research demonstrates that malaria cannot infect dogs, the author's claim that mosquitoes are essential for the life cycle of the malaria parasite would be definitively proven, because without the mosquito the parasite cannot develop.

A. definitively proved

What is the malaria cycle like?

The malaria parasite life cycle involves 2 hosts. When feeding on blood, the female Anopheles mosquito infected by plasmodia inoculates the sporozoites into the human host. Sporozoites infect liver cells. There, the sporozoites mature into schizonts.

With this information, we can conclude that if the research demonstrates that malaria cannot infect dogs, the author's claim that mosquitoes are essential for the life cycle of the malaria parasite would be definitively proven, because without the mosquito the parasite cannot develop.

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