Plasmodium

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Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.

7 Vestigial Features of the Human Body

Aurochs. Bos primigenius. Skeleton. Extinct animal. Skeleton of an Aurochs, an extinct wild ox.

6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction

Dancers at a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Mission District, San Francisco, California. (Photo dated 2019.) holidays

Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?

Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

Berries and leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) plant. Poisonous plant

7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants

Centimetres vs inches, metal rulers on a white background with clipping path.

Why Doesn’t the U.S. Use the Metric System?

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Plasmodium falciparum Plasmodium knowlesi Plasmodium reichenowi Plasmodium vivax Plasmodium ovale Plasmodium malariae malaria avian malaria endoparasitism Isospora Sarcocystis Eimeria

Key People

Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Ronald Ross

British doctor