The issue of race differences in intelligence, especially with respect to American black and white populations, is adjudged to be "nonsensical" in terms of the framing of the question, the populations sampled, the testing instruments utilized, and the concept of "intelligence" postulated. (Author/EH)

Discusses recent advances in culturing somatic cells of plants that now make it possible to apply the powerful techniques of microbial genetics to higher life forms. (Author/JR)

Reported were the cases of two of 25 Ss with Turner's syndrome (usually characterized by dwarfism and sexual infantilism) who were also mentally retarded. (Author/DB)

Historically genetic counseling programs have not included strong educational components or sound educational foundations. This paper deals with some of the drawbacks of current genetic counseling programs and the implications for education in the genetic counseling process. The author adopts a broad definition of genetic counseling which…

In this book the focus is upon education as the vehicle through which individual differences must be reconciled in the light of a moral commitment to the principles of equality. The axiom of equality is reviewed as it was laid down by philosophers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. More recent developments in the philosophy of equality…

Describes how to use playing cards as simulators to demonstrate several aspects of allelism and allele frequency in a gene pool. They provide an "unexpected" result, promote group discussion and may stimulate students to devise variations for comparison. (BR)

Relates occurrences at the Asilomar conference that led to the drafting of guidelines for gene-transplant research. The guidelines allow some experiments, defer others until safer containment is available, and ban those considered highly dangerous. (GS)

There are two kinds of hereditary influence, genetic inheritance and biological inheritance, that may respond to environmental determinants. The ability to speak is one genetically produced aspect of being human, and research studies based on the assumption that speech is innate to humans have found that infants appear to pay particular attention…

Research was conducted to assess teacher attitudes towards genetic I.Q. and to ascertain the extent of the teachers' knowledge of their students' I.Q. scores. Teacher attitudes were assessed via a 20-item questionnaire administered to 225 private and public school teachers in the southeast and northeast. Findings revealed that private shcool…

Electroencephalographic studies were done on 25 dyslexic and 25 normal reading children (all between the ages of 8 and 13 years). Results indicated that, of dyslexic Ss showing evidence of unresolved dominance in the EEG recordings, 35 percent of cases were possibly genetically determined with a further 40 percent possibly neurologically impaired.…

Two of these three pamphlets describe methods of teaching young elementary school children the principles of sampling. Tiles of five colors are added to a tub and children sample these randomly; using the tiles as units for a graph, they draw a representation of the population. Pooling results leads to a more reliable sample. Practice is given in…

Included are two of the eight units of the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study materials designed for grade nine students. These are "Why you're you" (genetics), and "Crusty problems" (earth science). The first unit includes basic chapters and "excursions" which extend some of the ideas developed in the basic…

The pamphlet uses diagrams and a question and answer format to explain briefly the causes and symptoms of Down's Syndrome and the risks of bearing children with Down's Syndrome for women over 35 years old. Discussed are such topics as typical IQ range for children with Down's Syndrome, the three genetic types of Down's Syndrome, and the function…