Secondary students' understanding of the gene concept : an analysis of conceptual change from multiple perspectives.

A journey into the past century of genetics history reveals transformations of the concept of the gene through notions of discrete units that obeyed Mendelian laws to the modem bewildering gene concept. We can no longer say that a gene is a sequence of DNA that continuously and uniquely codes for a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Venville, Grady J.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 1997
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1760