Looking more closely at the passage above and comparing it to the content of the National Science Education Standards (NSES)(National Research Council, 1996) shows that a single paragraph from the most commonly used
high school biology textbook in the United States includes at least six scientific terms (eukaryotic, chromosome, prokaryote, chromatin, histone, and nucleosome) that are, unlike DNA and protein, not included in the NSES.
With such rapid progress, the field has likely raced well beyond
the high school biology textbook your class used to study alleles, fruit flies and eye color inheritance.
A method for analyzing the coherence of
high school biology textbooks.
Not exact matches
Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her
high -
school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.
Even though I attended a public
high school, where I took two
biology courses, my teachers essentially skipped the first few chapters of our science
textbook and declared them «too controversial» to teach.
Not
textbook biology, the kind you learn in
high school with microscopes and dissecting kits.