Analysis of the knowledge o fundamental contents of Genetics and Cellular Biology presented by graduating students in Biological Sciences. / "Análise do conhecimento de conteúdos fundamentais de Genética e Biologia Celular apresentado por graduandos em Ciências Biológicas".

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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Biology today is the most talked about science and also the one which gets the largest media coverage. However, that doesnt mean that the biological concepts are of public knowledge, neither are they of knowledge of Biology students. The main objective of this research work is to analyze the knowledge of fundamental concepts of Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology of undergraduate students, who were majoring in Biological Sciences, in their senior year. We began our work with some selected questions from the National Exam of Biology Courses (?Provão?) for 2002, we chose the ones which involved concepts of Genetics and other correlated disciplines, we analyzed the ENC-BIO/2002 report prepared by the MEC, we prepared questionnaires with the analyzed questions from the ENC-BIO/2002 and distributed them to 72 senior students who were majoring in Biological Sciences, we conducted 33 semi-structured interviews with senior students majoring in Biological Sciences and, finally, we analyzed the results presented by the MEC report and by the interviews. We concluded that the students did not achieve their goals, which were established by the MEC. These goals were related to Genetics and other correlated disciplines and most of them demonstrated only a mechanical learning.

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1.genetics significant learning genetics 1.genética 2. aprendizagem significativa

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