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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A biological doctrine championed by Trofim Lysenko that maintained that environmentally induced traits could be inherited and that rejected the principles of genetics and natural selection.

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  • noun The doctrine that maintained that environmentally acquired characteristics could be inherited.
  • noun The use of pseudoscience in furtherance of an ideology.

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From Trofim Denisovich Lysenko

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