Grigory Levitsky

For the Russian astronomer, see Grigori Levitski.

Grigory Andreyevich Levitsky (19 November 1878 – 20 May 1942) was a Ukrainian and Soviet plant cytogeneticist. He worked along with Nikolai Vavilov who examined the role of mitochondria in plant heredity while also studying polyploidy and mutations. He introduced the term karyotype as used in its current sense, the phenotypic characterization of the set of diploid somatic chromosomes. He was subjected to imprisonment following a clash with T.D. Lysenko under Stalin's rule, and died in prison under unknown circumstances.

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