When did Lysenko become director of the Institute of Genetics?
1938
1940
1952
1964
Answer
Lysenko was appointed as the director of the Institute of Genetics in 1940, marking a pivotal moment in the history of genetics during the Soviet era. With his rise to power and influence, Lysenkoism, a pseudoscientific ideology that favored agricultural practices and theories based on Lamarckism and Michurin's ideas rather than Mendelian genetics, gained prominence.
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