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Survey Results

Part 1

1) Age

2) Gender

3) Degree

4) Interests

5) Location

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Part 2

6) Have you ever heard of Synthetic Biology before?

A. Never
B. Sometimes
C. Often

7) Are you curious about it

A. Yes
B. A little
C. No

8) Do you think is proper to use and eventually modify microrganisms (bacteria, yeasts) to produce something usefull to mankind?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

9) Would you agree with a future extension toward more complex living beings, as animals or plants?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

10) Does the idea of living beings as "programmable machine" worry you?

A. No
B. A little
C. Pretty much

11) Could a deeper knowledge increase your confindence in Synthetic Biology?

A. No
B. Maybe
C. Surely
D. I have no mistrust

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Part 3

12) Do you think right that the procedures to make synthetic biological systems and devices are open source?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

13) Are collective benefits a "right aim" for genetically modifying organisms?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

14) Do you think that an economic value can be assigned to products realized with living materials?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

15) Are organisms fabricated in laboratory different from the ones existing in nature?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

16) Do you agree with public funding of Synthetic Biology research?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

17) Should Universities offer courses of Synthetic Biology?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

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Part 4

18) Do you agree with University of Bologna partecipation to this international competition?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

19) UniBO iGEM Team 2009's project aims to realize a protein synthesis regulation system in Escherichia coli that is independent from regulated protein and acts at translational level, to make the control action faster. Does that seem important to you?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

20) Do you think this project has ethical implications?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

21) Do you think this project involves risks for humans or the environment?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Don't know

22) What do you think about what we are doing?

A. Very interesting
B. Interesting
C. Interesting enough
D. I'm not interested

23) Now that you have completed this survey, what are your impressions?

(open question)

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