During the 1950s,a scientist named Lysenko tried to solve the food shortages in the Soviet Union by breeding wheat that could grow in Siberia.He theorized that if individual wheat plants were exposed to cold,they would develop additional cold tolerance and pass it to their offspring.Based on the ideas of artificial and natural selection,do you think this project worked as planned?

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Lysenko's project did not work as planned because his ideas were not based on inherited traits and did not follow the principles of artificial or natural selection. The theory that exposure to cold could induce an acquired characteristic to be passed down to offspring has been debunked by modern genetics.

During the 1950s,a Scientist Named Lysenko Tried to Solve the Food