Student teachers' knowledge of and attitudes toward chemical hormone usage in biotechnology

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3892-3899

  Özden, Mustafa ^a   Uşak, Muhammet ^b   Prokop, Pavol ^c   Türkoǧlu, Aziz ^d   Bahar, Mehmet ^e  

^a ADIYAMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^d NEVSEHIR HACI BEKTAS VELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Biotechnology; Chemical hormone usage

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD; GENDER; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT TEACHER; TEACHER;

EID: 56349116803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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