Investigation of Students’ Alternative Conceptions of Terms and Processes of Gene Technology

Table 2

Common categories of students’ conceptions about the terms and processes of gene technology.

	Students’ application to the
Category	terms of				processes of
	gene	genetic engineering	clone	enzyme	inheritance of traits	transfer of genes	change of genotype
Genotype	+	+	+		+		+
Phenotype	+	+	+		+	+	+
Procedure		+	+		+	+	+
Pedigree	+				+	+	+
Valuation		+	+				+
Object	+		+	+			+
Localization	+			+

+ shows occurrence of the category with regard to the given term or process.