Determining of the University Freshmen Students’ Misconceptions and Alternative Conceptions about Mitosis and Meiosis

AbstractThe purpose of our study is to determine the misconceptions and inadequate information which the university freshmen students’ held about mitosis and meiosis. We majored mostly on the numbers of chromosome potential and the DNA amount in our questions. In addition we wanted our students to interpret their past information about the subject. The results of our qualitative analyses show that students reword interphase as preparatory period but they don’t recognize what happens in this period, precisely. Also, they don’t explain DNA, chromosome and gene concepts. And they don’t precisely recognize the importance of mitosis and meiosis for life