A-LEVEL STUDENTS - THEIR PROBLEMS WITH GENE AND ALLELE

The findings of this research indicate that it is important for teache rs to be aware of students' concepts in genetics before they start tea ching them. It also showed that once students had resolved any difficu lty with the relationship between gene and allele, their performances in genetics showed a significant improvement. This research found that the use of a chromosome model as a conceptual challenge tool was a mo st effective way of resolving these difficulties, especially if teache rs were aware of students' concepts, and had undergone some staff deve lopment in the model's use.