M Sc BU Bhopal

Can you provide me the syllabus of M. Sc. – Biotechnology Program as offered by BU or Barkatullah University, Bhopal as my exams are near by and I need it for preparation?

[shikha]

The syllabus of M. Sc. – Biotechnology Program as offered by BU or Barkatullah University, Bhopal is as follows:

Semester - I

UNIT-I: General structure of Cell. Historical origins of cell biology: The discovery of cell, development of the cell theory. The molecular evolution. Chemical bonds and functional groups in biological molecules.

UNIT-II: The structural and functional organization of cell membrane, ionic transport (Passive and active transport) the extra cellular matrix of eukaryote’s cell wall.

UNIT-III: Structure and functions of endoplasmic reticulum, golgi complex, ribosome lysosomes, peroxisomes (glyoxysomes), plastids and mitochondria. Biogenesis of mitochondria and chloroplast.

UNIT-IV: Steps in cell cycle, cell cycle check points, yeast as model system, cell division control and regulation yeast cdc gene. Genes for social control of cell, proto-oncogenes. Cell signaling: Exocrine, Endocrine, Paracrine and Synaptic strategies of chemical signaling, surface receptor mediated transduction (G-Proteins, Tyrosine kinases, steroid receptor and mediators: DAG, Ca+2, c-AMP)

UNIT-V: Cytoskeleton and cell motility: Microtubules, microfilaments and intermediate elements. Nuclear ingredients: Nuclear membrane, Organization of Chromatin: chromosome structure. Nature of the genetic material, proteins associated with nuclei. Packaging of genetic material: nucleosome model