This year, the UESTC iGEM team has conducted many human practice to disseminate iGEM and our project. One of them is a questionnaire survey which they drew up to gather the information of public awareness of synthetic biology, formaldehyde and last but not least,their perspective on the trans-genetic plant which can absorb formaldehyde.Last,we analyzed our research data,and come to a conclusion of our activity,and made many charts or diagrams to make people easy to understand.

The Questions

First Part (Basic Information)
1. Your gender:
A. Female
B. Male
2. Your age:
A. Below 18
B. 18 to 35
C. 35 to 50
D. over 50
3. Your current educational situation:
A. High school or below high school
B. undergraduate
C. graduate
D. master degree or above
4. Your monthly earning scope:
A. <3000 RMB
B.3000-6000 RMB
C.6000-10000 RMB
D.>10000 RMB
5. Your vocation is _________
6. So far which city have you stayed the longest time?
A. first-tier city
B. second and third-tier cities
C. countryside
D. foreign country

Second Part(environment)
1. What environmental problems you think is most important?
A. Air pollution
B. water pollution
C. noise pollution
D. light pollution
E. soil pollution
2. Where do you think formaldehyde come from?
A. Furniture
B. oil paint
C. cosmetics
D. carpet
E. automobile exhaust
3. Which drawback do you know about formaldehyde?
A. stimulate the skin mucous membrane
B. acute poisoning (difficult to breathe)
C. chronic hazard (lower immunity, sleepy, feeble)
D. carcinogenic (multiple myeloma, leukemia)
E. allergic dermatitis

4. If you buy a new house, which way you prefer to reduce the amount of formaldehyde?
A. ventilate to fresh the air
B. plant
C. activated carbon
D. photo catalyst
E. air cleaner
F. else

5. If you did not choose ‘plant’ on the question 4, what is your main consideration?
A. low purified efficiency
B. trouble to grow plant
C. prefer other ways
6. If there is a pot of plant, made by synthetic biology can absorb formaldehyde, do you accept it?
A. can’t accept it
B. a little care
C. accept with pleasure

Third Part (technology level)
1. Which application you think belongs to synthetic biology or genetic engineering?
A.biosensor
B. synthetic insulin, vaccine
C. microbes which can decompose oil
D. hybrid rice
2. what effects you think that synthetic biology or genetic engineering bring to human being?
A. high yield of grain
B. lower drug costs
C. improve the environment
D. no influence

3. For the plant designed by synthetic biology which absorb formaldehyde, which kind of problem you care more about?
A. the efficiency of absorbing formaldehyde
B. biological safety
C. whether it is easy to keep alive
D. the costs to keep plants healthy

4. What’s your opinion about this year’s UESTC iGEM team’s plant project?
A. I am very supportive about this project, because it can solve out the problem came from our daily life.
B. supportive, because we do not know this much, if it is good to undergraduates then we support it.
C. do not support. The plants made by synthetic biology may do harm to human being.
D. do not care about this competition. I feel the thing is far away from my life.

Forth part (marketing)
1. If you will go to buy the very product to get rid of formaldehyde, which two of the following options you care more?
A. portability
B. safety
C. efficiency
D. price
2. if you will buy this product, where do you prefer to buy?
A. supermarket
B. online shopping
C. building materials market
D. stall

Statistic

Analysis

From the charts, we could get the information that, for these questionnaires, the number of male slightly exceeded the female’. And this excess is trivial enough to guarantee the scientificity of our data collected.

From the charts, we could get that more than half of the people answered the questionnaire are young aged between 18 and 35. And the people between 35 and 50 also counts a crucial part. The information we get may insured the practicability and scientificity of our data collected.

We could notice that people received our questionnaires were mostly accepted a bachelor’s degree or not graduating students in college.

Due to the people received our questionnaire were mostly not graduating students in college, so the revenue people get, finding in this chart under 3,000 counts 52%. And the second most proportion is the people with the revenue between 3,000 and 6,000.