Question

What is carriers ? Give 2 examples
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Answer 1

Answer: There are some insects in our environment which transfer disease-causing microbes into our body and spread diseases. The insect which transmits disease-causing micro-organism to humans is called a carrier.

FOR EXAMPLE

• A person, animal, or plant that serves as a host for a pathogen and can transmit it to others, but is immune to it. Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria.

• An organism that carries a gene for a trait but does not show the trait itself.

Answer 2

Carriers are insects which spread pathogens to other organisms.
Eg housefly
Mosquito