Note the following features and choose the ones applicable to Wuchereria bancrofti.
I. Coelozoic parasite
II. Histozoic parasite
III. Monogenetic parasite
IV. Digenetic parasite
V. Monomorphic, acoelomate parasite
VI. Dimorphic. pseudocoelomete parasite

Options

A. II, III, V
B. II, I, VI
C. II,IV,VI
D. I,III,VI

Answer

C

Explanation

Statements II, IV, VI are correct Wuchereria bancrofti commonly called filarial worm is a digenetic, dimorphic, pseudocoelomate, histozoic and pathogenic parasite. It is digenetic because it has two stages of multiplication in two different hosts, one sexual in the mature form, the other asexual in larval stages. It is a histozoic parasite as it lives in the tissue outside of a cell body.