The Situation in Biological Science,

by Trofim Lysenko

CONTENTS Biology, the Basis of Agronomy The History of A History of Ideological Battle Two Worlds---Two Ideologies in Biology The Scholasticism of Mendelism-Morganism The Idea of Unknowability in the Teaching on "Hereditary Substance" The Sterility of Morganism-Mendelism Michurin's Teaching, the Foundation of Scientific Biology Young Soviet Biologists Should Study the Michurin Teaching For a Creative Scientific Biology Concluding Remarks Appendix.---Resolution Adopted by the Session of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the USSR on the Address Delivered by T. D. Lysenko on the Situation in Biological Science

104 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 1948

About the author

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко, Ukrainian: Трохи́м Дени́сович Лисе́нко) was a geneticist, agronomist and biologist in the Soviet Union predominantly labelled in the west as a purveryor of “pseudoscience”. A more proportioned view of his achievements has gradually emerged. They include confirmation of his experimental findings concerning horizontal (or lateral) gene transfer, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, vernalization of wheat seed and the now prevailing agronomic practice of planting grain crops into stubble, termed no-till, in the U. S.