Question

Why Ronald Ross used female Culex mosquito instead of female Anopheles mosquito in his experiments on malaria?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Because female culex mosquito is the only mosquito which can spread malaria.

Answer 2

Ronald Ross used female Culex as during dissecting an anopheline mosquito's stomach issue he found that they only transmit the malaria parasite.

• While dissecting an anopheline mosquito's stomach tissue, which had been fed to a malarious patient four days earlier, he found the malaria parasite
• He went on to prove the role of Anopheles mosquitoes in human malaria parasite transmission.
• Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium, a one-celled worm.
• Female Anopheles mosquitoes pick up the virus from infected individuals as they bite to get the blood needed to feed their larvae. The parasites propagate and grow within the mosquito.