| 11. | Mature schizonts produce 4 to 16 ( mean 12 ) large merozoites.
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| 12. | There they grow and undergo schizogeny producing a number of small merozoites.
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| 13. | The smaller merozoites invade the entrocytes, and become octoploid.
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| 14. | The merozoites become free by dropping off the parent trophozoite.
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| 15. | In the first type the schizonts divide into merozoites with small nuclei.
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| 16. | In comparison to the merozoites the sporonts have a less dense cytoplasm.
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| 17. | This step would have several cycles before the Merozoites turned into Gametocytes.
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| 18. | A few of the merozoites, however, progress to a sexual stage.
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| 19. | Eventually, the cells burst, releasing merozoites, which infect new cells.
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| 20. | Trophozoites then mature to schizonts which divide several times to produce new merozoites.
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