期刊名称：Revista Electrónica de Enseñanza de las Ciencias
印刷版ISSN：1579-1513
电子版ISSN：1579-1513
出版年度：2010
卷号：9
期号：3
页码：657-668
出版社：Universidade de Vigo
摘要：Questionnaires were applied in six different Brazilianundergraduate courses (Biology, Medicine, Dentistry, Psychology, Nutritionand Phonology) to analyze students’ comprehension of basic geneticconcepts. All sampled students together were not able to answer 30% ofthe questions, while a significant percentage did not adequately answermore than 60% of the questions. The differences in performance betweenfirst-year and last-year students of an undergraduate Biology course wereevaluated. Interestingly, first year university students, without anyformation in genetics at the university level, performed frequently betterwhen compared with their last-year colleagues. Results of the present studyrevealed that future teachers and other health professionals share distortedunderstanding of elementary genetics. This finding is of particular interest,reflecting a relationship between acquisition of the genetic knowledge andprofessional development.
关键词：teaching of genetics; basic genetic concepts; misconceptions;undergraduate education; health professionals.
