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(B) $Fasciola$ $hepatica$ (liver fluke) exhibits both alternation of generations (metagenesis-like phenomenon involving larval stages) and alternation

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(B) $Fasciola$ $hepatica$ (liver fluke) exhibits both alternation of generations (metagenesis-like phenomenon involving larval stages) and alternation of hosts (primary host: sheep/human,secondary host: snail). $Wuchereria$ and $Ascaris$ are monogenetic (single host). $Taenia$ has two hosts but does not exhibit the complex larval multiplication cycle characteristic of $Fasciola$.

Both alternation of generations and alternation of hosts are present in

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