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Lysenkoism

Ly·sen·ko·ism [ lī séngkō ìzzəm ]


noun 
Definition:
 
discredited genetic doctrine: a biological doctrine, presented by Trofim Denisovich Lysenko in the 1930s, maintaining that environmental characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime can be inherited by its offspring

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