Banca de DEFESA: ARIVONALDO VANIEL DA SILVA

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STUDENT : ARIVONALDO VANIEL DA SILVA
DATE: 27/03/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde - ICBS
TITLE:

TEACHING GENE MUTATIONS AND INHERITANCE FROM
CLASSICAL GENETICS USING INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITIES
BASED ON AN ANIMAL MODEL: Drosophila Melanogaster

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Genetic mutations; Classical genetic inheritance;
Arthropods; Learning.

PAGES: 135
BIG AREA: Ciências Biológicas
AREA: Genética
SUBÁREA: Genética Animal
SUMMARY:

Throughout the history of Brazilian education, science was determined
by an academic and international ideology, according to which
methodology and scientific production should be restricted to the
academic environment. Furthermore, this ideology determined the way
of building science and this model suffered from political instability
and authoritarian measures. The biology teaching method in school
institutions was for a long time characterized by presenting large
amounts of terminologies and extensive descriptions of structures and
biological processes. Based on this observation, this project was
developed at the Simôa Gomes school, located in Garanhuns-PE, with
the general objective of carrying out studies based on scientific
investigation using a model organism, the Drosophila melanogaster
species, aiming at significant learning to understand how gene
mutations and inheritance of classical genetics produce phenotypic
characteristics. The hypothesis of this project is that the use of
scientific research using an animal specimen: Drosophila
melanogaster, will make it possible to build dynamic and meaningful
teaching and learning processes about gene mutations and classical
genetic inheritance, representing an improvement in teaching practices
in high school. The interest in scientific research using an animal
model arose due to the need to use effective teaching processes in
order to promote meaningful learning and the potential of such a model
as an object of study to be investigated, from which many biological
processes can be understood. Regarding the results, when observing
the students' answers in the activities during the development of
the didactic sequence, it was noted that more than 70% of the students
got the correct answers to the proposed activities, thus, it was possible
to see that there was understanding in relation to how the 

characteristics are transmitted over generations, that is, how the genetic
mutations of chromosomes II and III of D. melanogaster segregate
independently during the formation of gametes in the Parental
Generation and produce phenotypic characteristics that combine in
different ways in individuals of the F1 Generation compared to the
phenotypic characteristics of the Parental Generation that gave rise to
them. Investigative teaching has the potential to promote deepening
scientific knowledge on various topics in biology and provide support
for reflecting, discussing and replanning teaching practice in
institutions intended for this purpose.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno(a) - 1426984 - JAIURTE GOMES MARTINS DA SILVA
Interno(a) - 2568449 - JORGE LUIZ LOPES DA SILVA
Presidente - 2998692 - LUCAS ANHEZINI DE ARAUJO