Multiple choice

Who discovered viroids?

  1. Robert H. Daines

  2. Theodor Otto Diener

  3. David Gottlieb

  4. Edwin Earle Honey

  5. Gary A. Strobel
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Theodor Otto Diener is an American plant pathologist and was the first in the field to describe viroids.Viroids were discovered and named by Theodor Otto Diener, a plant pathologist at the Agricultural Research Service in Maryland, in 1971.

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