Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи м Дени сович Лысе нко, Ukrainian: Трохим Денисович Лисенко; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1898 – 20 November 1976) was a Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adapted them to a pseudoscientific movement termed Lysenkoism. His experimental...
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи м Дени сович Лысе нко, Ukrainian: Трохим Денисович Лисенко; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1898 – 20 November 1976) was a Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adapted them to a pseudoscientific movement termed Lysenkoism. His experimental...