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Option: 1

W.M. Stanley showed that viruses could be crystallized


Option: 2

The term 'contagium vivum fluidum' was coined by M. W. Beijerinek


Option: 3

Mosaic disease in tobacco and AIDS in human being are caused by viruses


Option: 4

The viroids were discovered by D.J. Ivanowski


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Viroids have been found and designated by Theodor Otto Diener in the year 1971, a plant pathologist who worked at the Agricultural Research Center in Maryland. The Potato spindle tuber viroid (PsTVd) was the first viroid found, and it causes disease in potatoes and other Solanaceae plants. The virus was discovered by D.J. Ivanowski.

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