What is the relationship between malaria, sickle cell anemia, plasmodium, and genetics.?
Plasmodium is a type of malaria (There are 4 different types). Sickle cell anemia is when people have misshapen red blood cells, they look like little bananas instead of nice little circles, it is something that is inherited and is in the genes of a person. It is most common in African’s. Most believe that by having sickle cell anemia, people who lived in warm, moist areas, like Africa, were able to avoid malaria which is carried my the mosquitoes down there.
