Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? 1. Malaria : Mycobacterium 2. TB : Plasmodium. Select the answer using the code given below:

Neither pair is correctly matched. The correct matches are: Malaria is caused by Plasmodium (a protozoan parasite), not Mycobacterium. Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (a bacterium), not Plasmodium. The question has swapped the causative agents of the two diseases. Therefore, neither statement 1 nor statement 2 is correctly matched, making option (d) Neither 1 nor 2 the correct answer.