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The below mentioned article provides a diagram of monocystis.
1. It is the slide of different stages of Monocystis which is an endoparasite in the semina’ vesicles of earthworm.
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2. This slide shows irophczoit, gametocyte and sporozoit stages.
3. The trophozoite is the infective stage. It has a spindle shaped body covered with uniform cilia and enclosed in a tough pellicle.
4. The cytoplasm is differentiated into cortex and medulla.
5. The medulla has a large nucleus in the center and numerous paragiycogen granules and the cortex has numerous myonemes.
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6. Nutrition is saprozoic.
7. Two trophozoites become rounded and get enclosed in a common cyst. Each of them is known as gametocyte.
8. The gamtocytes are the reproductive stage.
9. Gametocytes give rise to sporozoits, which in turn develop into trophozoites.