Apparently, most of what’s taught to us about genetics in school is wrong. Most human traits that are used to demonstrate recessive and dominant traits aren’t appropriate to use, John McDonald finds, as they’re more complex than how textbooks make them out to be and potentially inflict trauma on children. He doesn’t use human traits to teach simple genetics to his class. Instead, he uses cats, whose genetics are much simpler, well-documented, and trauma-free.
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