HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT DISEASES PATHOGENS THEIR SURVIVAL AND SPREAD
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Question
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An organism that carries and transmits pathogens to humans and other animals.
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virus
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vector
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toxin
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pathogen
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A vector is a living organism that transmits an infectious agent from an infected animal to a human or another animal. Vectors are frequently arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, flies, fleas and lice.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vector is an organism which spreads the disease from one person to another. An example is a mosquito, which spreads malaria from one person to another. Pathogen is an organism which causes disease in an organism. The malarial parasite causing malaria is the pathogen here.
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