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Noun: Lysenko  li'seng-kow
  1. Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favoured by Stalin (1898-1976)
    - Trofim Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko

Type of: geneticist

Encyclopedia: Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich