What did Salvador Luria's research help understand?
Virus replication
Cell division
Protein synthesis
Photosynthesis
Answer
Virus replication is the process by which viruses make copies of themselves. Salvador Luria's research was instrumental in understanding this process. He used bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria, to study how viruses replicate. His work helped to establish that viruses are not living organisms but rather are parasites that require a host cell to replicate.
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