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NEET 2003
Exam
NEET
Year
2003
Subject
Zoology
Chapter
Human Health and Diseases

NEET 2003 · Zoology · Human Health and Diseases

During the life-cycle, Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) infects its...

During the life-cycle, Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) infects its intermediate host and primary host at the following larval stage respectively :During the life-cycle, Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) infects its intermediate host and primary host at the following

Options

  1. Aredia and miracidium
  2. Bcercaria and redia
  3. Cmetacercaria and cercaria
  4. Dmiracidium and metacercaria

Correct answer

D. miracidium and metacercaria

Step-by-step solution

Fasciola hepatica is called as digenetic because its life cycle is completed in two hosts (sheep and invertebrate host). It is endoparasite because it lives inside the bile passage of sheep. (Ref. to Fig. 29.1) During the life-cycle, Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) infects its intermediate host and primary host at the following
Related Theory The infective stage of liverfluke is metacercariae (larval stage).
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