-Distribution of high school students according to the perception of the possibility of having already recovered traces of DNA in fossils of non-avian dinosaurs (n=52).

-Distribution of high school students according to the perception of the possibility of having already recovered traces of DNA in fossils of non-avian dinosaurs (n=52).

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This work is the result of exploratory and descriptive research, with quantitative nature of data, which aimed toinvestigate the knowledge of high school students in southern Brazil about aspects related to Paleontology in general and, more specifically, to the basic concepts of Molecular Paleontology. The sample group consisted of 52 high school s...

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... 40.4% of the apprentices, this feat has already been accomplished and the scientists have already stored this molecule in the laboratory, while 28.8% of them said they did not believe in this hypothesis, and 30.8% did not know how to answer (Figure 4). When the responses are added together, it is observed that the majority (59.6%) of the students are positioned as those who either do not believe or do not yet have a defined position on the subject. ...