TY  - Data
T1  - Inheritance and variation in plants, animals and microorganisms
A1  - Documentation Information Center
DO  - 10.12389/ariddc.02373
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026-09-16
PB  - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
AB  - Over the ten years following the August Session of the All-Union Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1948, which determined the future direction of the development of materialist biology, no conference on problems of genetics was convened. During this period, scientists of the Michurin school accumulated a large body of new factual material, enriching materialist science and creating an urgent need for its systematic summarization.“Classical genetics” also underwent major changes. The experimental data it accumulated made the untenability of the fundamental theoretical positions of formal genetics increasingly apparent, even to the representatives of that school themselves. The advocates of “classical genetics” abandoned these views and replaced them with new ones, yet they continued to attempt to fit facts that contradicted chromosome theory and gene theory into the framework of those same theories. Naturally, this not only failed to free “classical genetics” from its metaphysical system, but in fact preserved that system in its entirety, despite attempts to provide a physicochemical foundation for the doctrine of a mysterious hereditary substance that exists apart from life while determining all of its characteristics. It must be emphasized that some of our biologists have promoted these new systems as the greatest achievements of “classical genetics.”In view of these circumstances, the Organizing Committee of the Anniversary Conference of the Institute of Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, established to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, considered it necessary to convene a broad conference on problems of genetics. The conference invited participants from the biological institutes and branches of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the academies of sciences of the Union republics, the All-Union Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, universities and other 
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