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