Question

What is exflagellation and what are the resultant products called?

Answer 1

. Male gametes of Plasmodium show lashing movements like flagella and get separated from the cytoplasm of microgametocyte. This process iscalled exflagellation and resultant products are called Male (or) Microgametes. It occurs in the lumen of crop of female Anopheles.

Answer 2

Exflagellation literally means a process in which a cilium or a flagellum is shed off by the bacteria.

Explanation:

• It is also a mechanism in the life cycle of malarial parasite.

• It happens with the microgametocyte stage of a malarial life cycle.

• These microgametocytes after the process of exflagellation gets converted to mature gametes.

• This process occurs so that the malarial parasite Plasmodium which were bound to the erythrocytes of the host blood, gets released.