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Briefly discuss how these following arthropods do its role as a vector to a living organism and the disesase that they transmitted.
1. Mosquitoes
a. role as vector-
b. born-disease-
2. Flies
a. role as vector-
b. born-disease-
3. Cockroaches
a. role as vector-
b. born-disease-
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