Heredity and Its VariabilityThe classic of Stalinist aberrant genetic theory, horticulturist Lysenko rejected orthodox genetics in favor of the theories of those of the Russian horticulturist I. V. Michurin (d. 1935). Among his theories were that wheat raised under certain conditions produce seeds of rye and that theoretical biology must be fused with Soviet agricultural practice. He was the total autocrat of Soviet biology from 1948 through 1953, and believed that through inherited characteristics Stalinism would create a 'new man'. Lysenko held that heredity can be changed by husbandry, a theory that had disastrous impact on Soviet agriculture. He was dismissed from his post as director of the Soviet Institute of Genetics. |
Contents
The Essence of Heredity | 5 |
The Essence of Variability Growth and Development | 13 |
Individual Development of the Organism | 21 |
Organism and Enviroment | 29 |
Directed Change in the Breed of Organisms | 46 |
Vegetative Hybrids | 63 |
Abolition of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms | 81 |
The Sexual Process | 103 |
Categories Groups and Forms of Heredity | 117 |
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agrotechnique altered artificial selection assimilated barley biological breed castrated characters and properties characters or properties chlorophyll chlorophyll grains chromosomes component cross cytogeneticists destabilized different heredities elective environmental conditions erties experiments extent external environment fact fertilization frost-resistant fruits ganism genera geneticists Gorki Leninskiye grafted twig granules hereditary spring hereditary substance heredity initial cell instance Institute of Selection living body low temperatures low thermal conditions maternal form Mendelist-Morganist ment metabolism Michurin offspring parent plant and animal plant organisms plants obtained plastic substances pollen practical farming preceding proc process of vernalization progeny properties and characters red-fruited redity reproduce require result riety ronmental conditions seeds Selection and Genetics sex cells sexual hybridization sexual process sowing sown in spring spring forms spring habit spring plants tained tion tomato transmitted tuber usual various vegetative hybrids velop vernalization stage white-fruited winter barleys winter forms winter habit winter plants winter varieties winter wheat zygote