Lysenko
Americannoun
noun
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Under the circumstances that have arisen, Lysenko chooses to compete and fight.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
“The fire spread in a few minutes, almost instantly,” said Oleksandr Lysenko, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in Poltava region, as workers continued to search for the missing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
Trifonov did add an unannounced Russian-sounding Ukrainian encore by Mykola Lysenko.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
Lysenko disagreed with Mendelian genetics, which correctly held that genetic traits are passed through chromosomes.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2022
By treating wheat strains with such “shock therapy,” Lysenko argued that he could make the plants flower more vigorously in the spring and yield higher bounties of grain through the summer.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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