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In the journal Science Education, Michelle Williams suggests genetics and heredity lessons should be taught with broader context and in a visually stimulating manner via computer technologies.

The resurrection of Mendel's paper on heredity, ... drive home the lesson of the need for co-operation and co-ordination in scientific investigation as a condition of further advance and the ...

A gene is a fundamental unit of heredity, consisting of a specific sequence of DNA that encodes the instructions for making a particular protein or set of proteins. Genes are passed down from parents ...