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[A] Bio fertilizers

[B] Bacteria-killing viruses

[C] Mental disorder

[D] Covid after affects

Answer: B

Notes:

Explanation: Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect and replicate only in bacterial cells.

Phage therapy involves using phages to treat bacterial infections.
Bacteriophages were discovered by Frederick Willian Twort in 1915 (Great Britain) and Felix d’Herelle in 1917 (France).

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