What year did Vavilov pass away?
1945
1943
1950
1955
Answer
Nikolai Vavilov was a Russian geneticist who made significant contributions to the fields of plant breeding and genetics. He was also a prominent opponent of Lysenkoism, a pseudoscience that held that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Vavilov was arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1940 and died in prison in 1943.
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