Lysenko Trofim

Lum Ka, 867 Lundqvist Bengt I., 715 Luthi Hans R, 84 Luty Tadeusz, 860 Lysenko Trofim, 614... 

Luhrmann Karl-Heinz 502 Lum Ka 748 Lundqvist Bengt I. 611 Luty Tadeusz 743 Lysenko Trofim 524... 

Happer, a physicist who was Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy during George H. W. Bush s presidency, discusses three interventions of politics into science. He describes the starvation and deaths that followed Trofim Lysenko s substitution of patent nonsense for genetics and plant science in the Soviet Union (with the full backing of Joseph Stalin and in accord... 

No wonder the Communists paid attention when young Trofim Lysenko declared that the genetics of Mendel s peas and Morgan s fruit flies was incorrect and simply a capitalist plot to exploit the peasants and working class. Lysenko believed that environmental factors determined the performance of plants and that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Having unmasked the evil Western myth of gene-based inheritance, Lysenko promised almost instant improvements in agricultural production. 

Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976), Soviet scientist of enormous political influence, rejected the genetic laws of Mendel. In my seventh-grade biology textbook, virtually only his theory was mentioned. As a pupil, I recall wanting to learn this theory. It was impossible to find any information. With difficulty, I finally found something acorns... 

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