When a research group led by Associate Professor Takahiro Yamanoi of the Faculty of Education, Hakuoh University asked junior high school students who had completed genetic learning in science about the terms "dominant" and "inferior" in genetics, about 90% misunderstood. It turned out that.The Genetics Society of Japan has proposed to change the terms "dominant" and "recessive" to "explicit" and "latent," but the research group believes that misunderstandings may spread further.
According to Shirasagi University, "dominant" refers to a trait that appears in the first hybrid hybrid by mating parents, and "recessive" refers to a trait whose expression can be suppressed in the first hybrid hybrid.The survey was conducted at a public junior high school in Tochigi prefecture to find out how widespread misinterpretations such as "dominance and inferiority are related to the advantages and disadvantages of survival" and "the higher the frequency in the population, the more dominant". It was conducted for 1,000 people.
As a result, about 90% of the students misinterpreted, and those who misunderstood that "the higher the frequency in the population, the better" than "dominant recessive is related to the advantages and disadvantages of survival". It turned out that there is a possibility that it has penetrated strongly.
According to the proposal of the Genetics Society of Japan, the research group may reduce the misunderstanding that "dominant recessiveness is related to the advantages and disadvantages of survival", but "the higher the frequency in the population, the better". I think that misunderstandings may spread on the contrary.
