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Contagium vivum fluidum was proposed by

(a) DJ Ivanowsky (b) MW Beijernek

(c)Stanley (d) Robert Hook

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(b) MW Beijernek proposed contagium vivum fluidum means contagious living fluid. This phrase was first used to describe virus, characteristic in escaping from the finesr mesh available.

DJ Ivanowsky was a Russian Botanist who discovered the filterable nature of viruses and one of the founder of virology.

Stanley Miller was a Jewish American chemist experimented on origin of life.

Robert Hooke was the first to study and record cells using his primitive microscope.


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