define sporozoans ???
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any of a large class (Sporozoa) of strictly parasitic nonmotile protozoans that have a complex life cycle usually involving both asexual and sexual generations often in different hosts and include important pathogens (such as malaria parasites and babesias)
Sporozoans are organisms that are characterized by being one-celled, non-motile, parasitic, and spore-forming. Most of them have an alternation of sexual and asexual stages in their life cycle.
Plasmodium is the most common known sporozoan which causes malaria in humans. It is an obligatory parasite.
It has two hosts namely female Anopheles mosquito and human. They primarily infect the red blood cells of humans.
The fifth Phylum of the Protist Kingdom, known as Apicomplexa, gathers several species of obligate intracellular protozoan parasites classified as Sporozoa or Sporozoans, because they form reproductive cells known as spores.
Many sporozoans are parasitic and pathogenic species, such as Plasmodium