Why did Trofim Lysenko's Soviet agricultural project fail?
a. He assumed that he could modify crops through artificial selection.
b. He assumed that exposing seeds to the cold would result in cold-resistant seeds.
c. He used methods developed from Darwinian evolution.
d. Soviet technology was not advanced enough for the project to succeed.
Question 2
James Hutton is associated with __________, which argues that __________.
a. Lysenkoism; changes to individuals over their lifetime can be passed on to the next generation.
b. catastrophism; there have been multiple creations interspersed by great natural disasters
c. uniformitarianism; the same slow geological processes observed today also operated in the past
d. adaptive radiation; one founding species can diversify into multiple species in multiple environmental niches
Agricultural Biotechnology
Genetically Modify Monkeys
Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project.
Agricultural Regions
Post-Soviet Challenges
Latitude versus Agricultural GDP per Agricultural Worker