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(D) The term 'Virus' means 'venom' or 'poisonous fluid'. This name was given by Louis Pasteur. $1.$ Dmitri Ivanowski $(1892)$ recognized certain micro

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(D) The term 'Virus' means 'venom' or 'poisonous fluid'. This name was given by Louis Pasteur. $1.$ Dmitri Ivanowski $(1892)$ recognized certain microbes as causal organisms of the mosaic disease of tobacco. $2.$ $M$.$W$. Beijerinck $(1898)$ demonstrated that the extract of the infected plants of tobacco could cause infection in healthy plants and called the fluid as 'Contagium vivum fluidum' (infectious living fluid). $3.$ $W$.$M$. Stanley $(1935)$ showed that viruses could be crystallized and crystals consist largely of proteins.

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