What is the name of the Soviet-era program that applied ideas associated with Lamarckian inheritance to agricultural production?

What is the name of the Soviet-era program that applied ideas associated with Lamarckian inheritance to agricultural production?

• A. Lysenkoism
• B. Lamarckism
• C. Uniformitarianism
• D. Neo-Darwinism

Answer: (A)

This item tests knowledge of a Soviet-era movement that promoted the idea that traits acquired during life could be inherited and used that belief to guide farming practices. That movement is Lysenkoism, named after Trofim Lysenko. He argued that environmental changes could induce heritable, heritable changes in crops and rejected Mendelian genetics, pushing policies that shaped agricultural breeding to fit this view and persecuting geneticists who supported conventional genetics. The other terms refer to different ideas or contexts: Lamarckism is the general concept of inheritance of acquired traits, Uniformitarianism is a geological principle, and Neo-Darwinism is the modern synthesis of evolution combining natural selection with genetics.

This item tests knowledge of a Soviet-era movement that promoted the idea that traits acquired during life could be inherited and used that belief to guide farming practices. That movement is Lysenkoism, named after Trofim Lysenko. He argued that environmental changes could induce heritable, heritable changes in crops and rejected Mendelian genetics, pushing policies that shaped agricultural breeding to fit this view and persecuting geneticists who supported conventional genetics. The other terms refer to different ideas or contexts: Lamarckism is the general concept of inheritance of acquired traits, Uniformitarianism is a geological principle, and Neo-Darwinism is the modern synthesis of evolution combining natural selection with genetics.