Lysenko in a sentence

That it too would be able to withstand harsh winters or imperfect weather conditions. citation Lysenko's genetic theory main Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetic inheritance theory in favor of his own logic.

Only by examining the science itself is it possible to determine that Lysenko was a fraud himself, and that his 'science' was rooted in politically motivated conclusions: the antithesis of good science.

With Stalin’s blessing, Lysenko designated genetics as a bourgeois pseudoscience based on idealism instead of Marxist materialism.

This followed claims that the RusAF had aided the forging of paperwork to help Russian world indoor high jump champion Danil Lysenko avoid a drugs ban.

According to Lysenko, The organism and the conditions required for its life are an inseparable unity.

After Khrushchev's dismissal in 1964, the president of the Academy of Sciences declared that Lysenko's immunity to criticism had officially ended.

After World War II had ended, Lysenko took an interest in the works of Olga Lepeshiskaia, an elder physician who claimed to be able to create cells from egg yolk and non-cellular matter.

An expert commission was sent to investigate records kept at Lysenko's experimental farm.

Another theory of Lysenko's was that to obtain more milk from a cow, it did not depend on the genetics, but instead on how they are treated.

By the late 1920s, the Soviet political leaders had given their support to Lysenko.

By treating wheat seeds with moisture as well as cold, Lysenko induced them to bear a crop when planted in spring.

Delivered before a session of a meeting of the V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences on 31 July 1948, when Lysenko, its president, was at the apex of his power.

However, mainstream scientists re-emerged, and found new willingness within Soviet government leadership to tolerate criticism of Lysenko, the first opportunity since the late 1920s.

Lysenko claimed that his ideas were not associated to Lamarckism and that they were all their own, but this is not entirely true.

Lysenko did not take well to this or any criticism for that matter.

Lysenko had come from a poor family, and was working to make a name for himself.

Lysenko managed to maintain his influence under Khrushchev despite repeated failures; as each proposal failed, he advocated another.

Lysenko proved himself very useful to the Soviet leadership by reengaging peasants to return to work, helping to secure from them a personal stake in the overall success of the Soviet revolutionary experiment.

Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Lysenko shaped his genetic concepts in series to support a simple practical purpose in breeding and improving wheat.