Malaria is directly caused by 

A. protozoa.
B. mosquitoes.
C. bacteria.
D. unclean environments.


A. protozoa.

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Normal diploid somatic (body) cells of the mosquito Culex pipiens contain six chromosomes. Assuming that all nuclear DNA is restricted to chromosomes and that the amount of nuclear DNA essentially doubles during the S phase of interphase, how much

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