The American Biology Teacher
By Abimbola, Isaac Olakanmi and Baba, Salihu
“Misconceptions & Alternative Conceptions in Science Textbooks: The Role of Teachers as Filters”
Publisher: University of California Press
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Pp. 14-19
19996
Misconceptions & Alternative Conceptions in Science Textbooks: The Role of Teachers as Filters
Type: Anecdotal
Data collection method: Content analysis
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Misconceptions in the text science books
- Oxygen is produced as a waste product (p.108).
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When the male gametes come from the pollen of a flower on a different plant, the ovule is cross-fertilized (p.181).
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Fluke, Schistosoma is a blood fluke parasite of humans, the adult is long and thin and lives in the abdominal vein (p.246).
There are different types of tapeworms all of which have an intermediate host in which their larval stages develop (247).
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Sheep and goats are susceptible to gut parasites and s.eep is one of the hosts for the liver fluke that causes schistosomiasi (bilharzia in humans (p.289).