Publication: The assessment of an educational proposal to address the relationship between genetic information and protein synthesis
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Esteve Guirao, Patricia ; Baños González, Isabel ; Valverde Pérez, Magdalena
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89480-1_11
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This study assesses an educational intervention aimed at the enhancement of the learning of genetics related to the expression of genetic information and protein synthesis. For this purpose, a pretest and a posttest were completed by 43 students in the 10th grade, organized into an experimental and a control group. For the experimental group, an educational intervention was designed, addressing genetics in an observable and familiar context related to lactose intolerance. In the control group, these contents were addressed by means of more theoretical transmission of knowledge. Differences between the tests and groups were analyzed. In the pretest, the ideas in both groups were very similar, without statistically significant differences. In the posttest, both interventions seemed to be adequate for improving the students’ understanding of descriptive aspects, such as the location of genetic information. On the other hand, for those aspects which require greater systemic vision, to relate nutrition and protein synthesis, the experimental group obtained better results. Nevertheless, difficulties regarding the understanding of the transcription of DNA into RNA still remain, and their educational implications need to be discussed.
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