Lysenko promoted the inheritance of what?
Acquired characteristics
Dominant traits
Recessive genes
Blood types
Answer
Acquired characteristics are heritable traits influenced by an organism's environment or experiences during its lifetime. Proposed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and later advocated by Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Union, this theory contradicts the principles of modern genetics, where traits are predominantly determined by inherited genetic material passed down from parents to offspring.
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