Delivered as the presidential address at the session of the V.I. Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the U.S.S.R., July 31, 1948.
Contents
1. Biology, the basis of agronomy -- 2. The history of biology: a history of ideological controversy -- 3. Two worlds -- two ideologies in biology -- 4. The scholasticism of Mendelism-Morganism -- 5. The idea of unknowability in the teaching on "hereditary substance" -- 6. The sterility of Morganism-Mendelism -- 7. Michurin's teaching -- foundation of scientific biology -- 8. Young Soviet biologists should study the Michurinian teaching -- 9. For a creative scientific biology -- Concluding remarks.
