Consider the following: Plasmodium has an unusual organelle called an apicoplast. Recent research has shown that apicoplasts are derived from chloroplasts via secondary endosymbiosis and have a large number of genes related to chloroplast DNA. Glyphosate is one of the most widely used herbicides. It works by poisoning an enzyme located in chloroplasts. Biologists are testing the hypothesis that glyphosate could be used as an antimalarial drug in humans. How are these observations connected?

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Hey everyone. Let's take a look at this question together, identify which of the following statements is true regarding the malarial parasite Plasmodium. So let's do a bit of information recall and remember what we've learned about the parasite Plasmodium and use that information and go down the line in the answer choices and see which of the following are true so that we can figure out which one is the right answer. Answer choice A says it contains a vestigial plastic called the epic oh plast. That one is true. And we also note that the vestigial plastic ID is an unusual plastic. Did that the parasite forms by end of symbiosis? Answer choice B. Says that it belongs to the phylum ap complex to That is also true. It does belong to the phylum ap complex to and answer choice C. It completes its life cycle in two hosts. It's also true. It reproduces a sexually in humans and then completes its life cycle in the female mosquito through sexual reproduction. So the only correct answer here is answer choice D. Because answer choices A. B and C. Are all true. So the answer choice D. All statements are correct is the right answer. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye