An organism or individual in its asexual reproductive stage, particularly used for parasites that have multiple life forms.
From Greek 'agamos' (asexual) combined with the suffix '-mont' (from Greek 'on,' meaning being or entity). It refers to the actual organism in its non-sexual phase.
In the malaria parasite's life cycle, the agamont is the form that multiplies inside your blood cells—by studying this stage, scientists figured out how to interrupt the parasite's reproduction and create better malaria treatments!
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