Question
Biology Question on human health and disease
Who discovered Plasmodium in R.B.C. of human beings?
A
Ronald Ross
B
Mendel
C
Laveran
D
Stephens.
Answer
Laveran
Explanation
Solution
Laveran discovered that malaria is caused by protozoan parasite (Plasmodium) in 1880. He discovered Plasmodium and got nobel prize in 1907. Sir Ronald Ross in 1897, a doctor in Indian Army, established that malarial parasite is transmitted by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and in 1902, he got Nobel prize for this discovery.