alleryStart learning →Who developed the most commonly used system of virus classification, and when?
AStanley Prusiner, in the late 1930s
BAdolph Meyer, in the late 1880s
CDavid Baltimore, in the early 1970s
DDmitri Ivanowski, in the early 1890s
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. David Baltimore, in the early 1970s
1. The Baltimore classification is the most commonly used system of virus classification.
2. It was developed by the Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore.
3. He developed it in the early 1970s.
4. Meyer and Ivanowski worked on tobacco mosaic disease in the 1880s and 1890s, decades earlier.
5. Stanley Prusiner is the biologist linked with prions rather than with virus classification.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 21 "Viruses", section 21.1 Viral Evolution, Morphology, and Classification_
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