Knowledge and attitude towards biotechnology in students of the last course of Compulsory Secondary Education

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Today, many of the events related to everyday life have to do directly or indirectly with biotechnological processes. Due to this, and given that biotechnology is a subject included in the compulsory secondary education (ESO) curriculum, the aim is to know the level of knowledge and the attitude toward this discipline with which the students of this educational stage finishes. For this, a study was carried out with 104 students of the 4th year of ESO in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. The study was carried out in two high schools in the provinces of Huelva and Malaga, through a questionnaire. The subsequent analysis of the results suggests that the majority of students who finish compulsory education do not have the necessary or minimum knowledge to interpret much of the information that is put into play in today's society. In addition, it has been possible to see how their attitude towards the different biotechnological processes is related to their level of knowledge and with their own conceptions.

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