ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TOWARD BIOTECHNOLOGY MODERN AND BIOTECHNOLOGY CONVENTIONAL IN BIOLOGY DEPARMENTS’ STUDENT STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

This research aims to detect the knowledge and attitudes toward biotechnology modern and biotechnology conventional. This research belongs to descriptive-quantitative method. The number of population in this research is 275 students who are in 6th semester of biology departments State University of Medan. These samplesare taken by random sampling technique. Data collection techniques used multiple choice and questionnaire. The result of this research after data analyzed showed: (1) the percentage of students knowledge is 1,23% excellent, 6,13% very good, 17,18% good and 75,46% less. (2) the result of attitudes toward biotechnology modern and biotechnology conventional are quietly same, they more agree in biotechnology just use in plant and microorganism; (3) the curriculum of biotechnology education is the most thing that must be fixed to increase the students knowledge, (4) students must be aware to the biotechnology modern and biotechnology conventional risk before chose the suitable attitudes.