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In my Psych textbook (Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy. Psychology Sixth Edition. Houghton Mifflin: New York 2003) is a painful simplification of molecular genetics. The most heinous crime the text commits is not only depicting nuclear DNA as being condensed for mitosis (which it isn't) but also as, somehow, having the chromatid of a mitotic chromosome composed of two chromosomes, one from each parent. What really pisses me off is that this diagram is from a 1994 issue of Time magazine and not any real scientifically accurate publication. It's bad enough that a major periodical screwed up basic molecular biology, but such inaccuracies appearing in a college textbook is simply inexcusable. Who knows how many countless English majors have seen this diagram in the text and were led astray from the truth of what exists inside every cell? The unclean masses need to have bad science kept away from them, not touted as the truth.
UPDATE: I suppose I should note that the offending illustration is on page A-2.
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