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Edwin Grant Conklin Quotes

1863–1952 United States

Edwin Grant Conklin (November 24, 1863 – November 20, 1952) was an American biologist and zoologist.

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Zoologists

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Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

Cliffe Knechtle (1986)

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides—that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist—but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

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