Which of the following organisms has only one host in its life cycle?

What is an ookinete in the life cycle of Plasmodium?

What is the female gametocyte called?

Identify the correct statements from the following:
$(i)$ The cryptozoite ingests food and becomes spherical.
$(ii)$ Sporozoites enter the human blood.
$(iii)$ Two stages of the life cycle are observed in Plasmodium.
$(iv)$ The cryptozoite transforms into cryptomerozoites.

Assertion: There is no chance of malaria to a man on the bite of male $Anopheles$ mosquito.
Reason: It carries a non-virulent strain of $Plasmodium$.

Exoerythrocytic schizogony of $Plasmodium$ takes place in