EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Pathogenic protists are parasites that infect other organisms, like animals and human beings, and cause harm to their hosts. Some examples of pathogenic protists are Trypanosoma brucei, T. cruzi, Plasmodium falciparum, and Toxoplasma gondii. Sleeping sickness is caused by the pathogenic protist T.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pathogenic protists that infect humans are all single-celled organisms, formerly called ‘protozoa’.

Detailed explanation-3: -These protists include Plasmodium, Leishmania, Trypanosoma, and Toxoplasma. The diseases they cause include malaria, sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease.

Detailed explanation-4: -What are 3 ways protists are harmful to humans? Some severe diseases of humans caused by protists (primarily blood parasites) are Malaria, Trypanosomiasis (African sleeping sickness), Leishmaniasis, Toxoplasmosis, and Amoebic dysentery.