What were the origins of Metchnikoff's parents?
Romanian father and Ukrainian-Jewish mother
Russian Father and Romanian Mother
English Father and Russian Mother
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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, better known as Ilya Metchnikoff, was born in Kherson, Russian Empire, in 1845. His father was a Romanian, and his mother was a Ukrainian-Jewish woman. Mechnikov was a zoologist and bacteriologist who is best known for his work on phagocytosis and immunity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908 for his work on phagocytosis.
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