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Throughout the early period of virology when many viruses of plants, animals, and bacteria were cataloged, ideas about the origin and nature of these distinctive infectious agents were quite controversial. Arguments centered on whether viruses originated from parts of a cell or were built from unique components. Little progress was made toward resolving these issues and establishing the definitive properties of viruses until the development of new techniques that allowed their visualization or propagation in cultured cells.