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Who discovered viruses?

Correct answer C. Dmitry Ivanovsky

Explanation

In 1892 the Russian botanist Dmitri Ivanovsky showed that the agent of tobacco mosaic disease passed through filters that trapped bacteria, the first evidence of viruses.

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