SURVEY: PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF GMOS AND SOURCE OF INFORMATION

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Question 1

Question 1) Do you work or study in a scientific area? (YES OR NO)

TO KNOW YOU BETTER

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Question 2

Question 2) Which country do you currently reside?

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Question 3

Question 3) How old are you?

Only number, for example if you are twenty years old write 20.

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GMOS?

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Question 4

Question 1) For you, what does GMO mean?

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Question 5

Question 2) In which category or categories can GMOs be used by scientists around the world? (1 to 3 answers possible)

You can choose one to three answers.

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Question 6

Question 3) Do you know which of the following fruits is the only one which is commercial available as a GM Fruit?

YOUR OPINION IS IMPORTANT!

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Question 7

Question 1) Your own perception about…

1 star: Very Bad
2 stars: Bad
3 stars: not too bad
4 stars: not too good
5 stars: Good
6 stars: Very Good

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Question 8

Question 2) If a professional explains to you clearly his/her reason to create GMO, what could be your feeling?

PLEASE READ HELP BEFORE

1 star: Very Bad
2 stars: Bad
3 stars: not too bad
4 stars: not too good
5 stars: Good
6 stars: Very Good

HELP PART1:

Kill mosquitoes: Mosquitoes can impact our health and give us diseases. We change a part of DNA of mosquitoes and when it reproduces it transfers its new characteristic to its descendants. This modification can affect the movement of the insect and reduce chance of it to contaminate human.

Crops resistance: to protect crops against pests such as virus, insect.

HELP PART2:

Golden Rice: Rice genetically modified to have more vitamin A (important substance for our health) than organic rice. Golden rice has been created to improve specific nutrients (vitamin A) for poor populations.

Humulin: Insulin for diabetics produced by GM yeast. These insulin is used since 1982 because production cost are reduced, and safety is increased by using insulin which is important to regulate sugar in our body.

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Question 9

Question 3) Do you feel that food and supplement products containing GMOs should be labeled as such?

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Question 10

Question 4) Do you buy or use GM food?

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Question 11

Question 5) In your opinion can GM products have an impact on human health?

GENOME EDITING:

Definition 1:

Genome editing is the insertion, deletion or replacement of DNA at a specific site in the genome of an organism or cell. It is usually achieved in the lab using engineered nucleases also known as molecular scissors.

Definition 2:

Genome editing is a tool that scientists are using to edit or change genome to obtain new characteristic. The genome is such as an instruction manual. That’s make us who we are. DNA is the language of the genome and encode all our life. Sometimes there is some mistake and people get sick. We can use some little molecules as scissor to cut a specific place (locus) of the genome and edit it.

With this method we can directly and precisely change a gene and have more chance to obtain mutation(modification in DNA)than naturally. And obtain our specific characteristic (such as “cancel” a disease, if it’s a genetic disorder).

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Question 12

Question 1) Did you previously hear about this process?

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Question 13

Question 2) Do you think Genome editing is safer than GMOs?

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Question 14

Question 3) Do you think we can have the same results than with GM processes?

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Question 4) Please classify the following products depending on your own acceptance (from 1 (most one) to 7 (less accepted))?

Supplement: something that completes or makes an addition in your alimentation.

Breeding: he mating and production of offspring (organism A*B=C)

Mutagenesis: DNA of an organism is changed, resulting in a mutation (modification in DNA, such as insertion, deletion or replacement). It may occur spontaneously in nature, or as a result of exposure to mutagens ( e.g. pysically (UV, sound...) Chemically (ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)).

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TO CONCLUDE:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!

Your participation in this Survey can help me to understand better how GMO are perceived and the impact of the source of information on this subject. But also, the comprehension of the new technic of genome editing.

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