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Lysenkoism [lī′seŋ·kō‚iz·əm] (biology) A pseudoscientific theory that flourished in the Soviet Union from the early 1930s to the mid-1960s; advocated by T. D. Lysenko, who called it agrobiology, it was claimed to be a revolutionary fusion of agronomy and biological science, and it opposed traditional biology and the gene concept but supported the inheritance of acquired characteristics. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There's an element of Lysenkoism [Lysenko was Stalin's favorite biologist] all tangled up with this pseudoscience and environmentalism. And the Soviet combination of utopianism, industrialization, despotism, and Lysenkoism owed as much to futurist fantasy as to Marx and tsarism. |
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