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Who is known as the "father of microbiology"?

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Isaac Newton
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Robert Hooke
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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Robert Brown
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The correct option is C Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek is known as the "father of microbiology". This is because he was the first one to discover living cells.

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