theme 10/20/1998 (1998)

Theme of the transfer: History and development of genetics.

Cloning.

The plot is that 50 years ago, in the summer of 1948, the session of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin (VASKhNIL), organized by with a view to declaring to the country and the world that from now on the Communist Party prohibits research in our country in the field of genetics.

Dedicated to the situation in biological science, the session dealt a severe blow to genetics, a key science of modern natural science.

The only true in biology was the views of Lysenko.

They were called "Michurin's doctrine".

Classical genetics was recognized as a reactionary direction in biological science. E.D. Lysenko called the session of VASKHNIL, where he finished his scientific opponents, "a great holiday."

Guests of the program: Marlen Aslanyan, Professor of Moscow State University, Vladimir Ivanov, Director General of the Medical Genetics Center, Igor Kudryavtsev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Boris Konyukhov, Head of Laboratory of the Institute of Genetics, Professor.

The main topics and questions that were discussed in the studio:

1.Why, at that time, the power was afraid of genetic science?

2.What moved T. Lysenko his associates to an active fight against genetics?

3. The science always develops in the discussion.

The consequences of the theory and practice T. Lysenko.

4.This part of the system of repression of our system of those years.

On a single point of view, which is shown by the party.

5.Pro promises of "miraculous" results T. Lysenko.

6. Why did not Stalin use genetics for his own purposes.

7.What is the eugenic movement?

8. On the reality of a society of geniuses.

9. How was genetics taught at that time?

10. About the first experiments on cloning.

On the project of experiments in Russia.

Opinion.

Says Lev Ernst, Academician of the Russian Academy of Agriculture.

Clip about the lamb Dolly. (joke).

Video chat about the cloning of the leading program of Yu.

Gusman.