Question

To which group of microbes do causative organism of malaria and kala azar belong

Answer 1

Kala azar is a disease caused by protozoan parasite Leishmania.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne parasitic infection spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. The Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria is a single-celled parasite that is neither virus nor bacterium.

Answer 2

The group to which malaria and kala azar belongs to is given below :

The organism malaria belongs to the group named sporozoans under protozoans. Plasmodium is the malarial parasite that cause the disease malaria.

Kala azar also belongs to the group named as flagellated protozoans. Kala azar is caused by the organism named Leishmania.

These organisms depends on other living ones for obtaining food and hence they are heterotrophs.