Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips 😈😜🍆 If malaria classifications keep slipping out of your brain, here’s the most unhinged way to remember the four Plasmodium cousins, and trust me, once you hear it like this, you’ll never forget it. • Falciparum → the cousin with the eggplant-shaped gametocyte and multiple rings. • Vivax → the ghosty, amoeba-shaped cousin who prefers young RBCs. • Malariae → the older cougar cousin with the classic band-form trophs (band for band 🗣️). • Ov