Grassi discovered the name plasmodium.
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Plasmodium is a sporozoan that causes Malaria.
Round worms are heterotrophic, obtaining their nutrition by feeding on organic matter in their environment. Plasmodium is a parasitic protist that obtains its nutrition by feeding on the blood of its host organism.
Funguslike protist plasmodium is a mold which can move during certain times in its life cycle while Plasmodium which causes malaria is an infectious parasite grown in the stomach of a mosquito and cultivated in the human liver.
Plasmodium vivax is a eukaryotic parasite. Eukaryotic organisms have their genetic material enclosed in a nucleus, while prokaryotic organisms do not have a nucleus.
The second stage of Plasmodium is called the sporozoite stage. Sporozoites are the form of the parasite that are injected into the human host when an infected mosquito bites.