单词 | michurinism |
释义 | Michurinismn. Biology. Now historical. The anti-Mendelian and neo-Lamarckian views on plant breeding and heredity (esp. on the heritability of acquired characteristics) held by or attributed to I. V. Michurin, which were elaborated by T. D. Lysenko and formed the basis for Lysenkoism. Cf. Lysenkoism n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > Michurinism Michurinism1949 1949 J. S. Huxley Soviet Genetics & World Sci. i. 23 Michurinism is..an essentially non-scientific or pre-scientific doctrine. 1951 Man 51 64/2 When we consider the conflict between ‘Michurinism’ and ‘Mendelism-Morganism’..the panel can hardly be expected to take account of the opinions of those in whose countries science is not free. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists June 210/1 Political and other special interests, in their attempts to fabricate theoretical bases for their practices, as in the case of Hitler's racist obsessions and Stalin's Michurinism. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 862/2 Michurin's theories of hybridization, labelled michurinism, which accepted completely the inheritance of acquired characteristics, were adopted as the official science of genetics by the Soviet regime. 1996 Oxf. Mag. No. 136. 14/1 The [Russian] university courses, especially those dealing with genetics and evolution, were taught within the strait-jacket of a doctrine called Michurinism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949 |
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