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DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Sr.No.	Contents		B.Sc Biotechnology (Entire)
1	Establishment of the Department:		2007
2.	Number of Teaching posts and faculty	Permanent	-
		Biotechnology (Full Time)	2
		Biochemistry(Full Time)	1
		Microbiology(Full Time)	1
		Botany (C.H.B)	1
		Zoology(C.H.B)	1
		English(C.H.B)	1
		Physics(C.H.B)	1
		Chemistry(C.H.B)	1
		Mathematics(C.H.B)	1
		Statistics(C.H.B)	1
		Computer(C.H.B)	1
3	Strength of Students	Part I (F.Y.)	60

		Part II (S.Y.)	60
		Part III (T.Y.)	60
4	Departmental Co-curricular Activates	Student Project Study Tour Entrepreneurship Alumni meet Parents meet Wall papers Seminars
5	Extra Co-curricular Activates	Best Practices – Clay model, Model presentation Poster Presentation
6	Details of Guest Faculty	Lead college activity
7	Research Activities:
8	Important Instruments:	PCR Laminar Air Flow BOD Incubator COD Digester Cooling Centrifuge Gel Documentation System

Course outcome

B.Sc. Biotechnology I - Sem I

1. Chemistry I:

To study basic principles of Electrochemistry and physical chemistry.
To know reaction kinetics and to understand thermodynamics.
To get the knowledge of structure and bonding.
To study coordination complexes and essential and trace elements in biological processes.

2. Physics I:

To study fundamental concepts of physics like elasticity, viscosity and surface tension.
To study principles of electronics such as sound waves, their applications, Doppler effect and its applications.
To get the knowledge of thermodynamics and thermometry.

3. Plant Science:

To study fundamental concepts of plant physiology and taxonomy of angiosperms.
Awareness of plant diversity.
To get the knowledge of sexual reproduction in angiosperms.
To study seed and plant anatomy.

4. Mathematical Methods:

To study the importance of mathematics for biologists.
To study complex numbers and matrices.
To study differential equation like Bernoulli’s differential equation with examples.
To study partial differentiation and application of differential equation.

5. Biomolecules:

To study basic concepts of Biochemistry.
To get the knowledge of Biomolecules such as nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids.
To study origin of life.

6. Biotechniques and Instrumentation:

To study practical biochemistry; principles and techniques.
Awareness of the instruments used in Biotechnology and their principles.
To study chromatography, Electrophoresis and UV-Visible spectroscopy.

7. Microbiology I:

Introduction to general microbiology concepts.
To study morphology and cytology of Bacteria, Bacterial taxonomy and microbial nutrition.
To study concept of sterilization and methods of sterilization.

8. Computer Basics and Bioinformatics:

Introduction to computer basics and operating systems.
To study office operation like Microsoft word, Text and Graphics, Microsoft excel, Powerpoint presentation, design and custom animation.
To study basics of Bioinformatics like internet, world wide web, tools for protein function analysis, sequence analysis.
Introduction to operations like BLASTA, FASTA, EMBASS, Clustal W

B.Sc. Biotechnology I - Sem II

1. Chemistry II:

To study fundamentals and mechanistic basis of organic reaction.
To study stereochemistry.
To get the knowledge of elements of physical chemistry like radioactivity and radioactivity detecting techniques.
To study chemistry of natural products.

2. Physics II:

To study fundamentals of optics and optics correlated with microscopy.
To study Bioelectricity, Electrocardiogram (ECG), Electrocephalogram (EEG), Electromyogram (EMG) and Electroculogram (EOG).
To study semiconductor devices and principles of digital electronics and applications.
To study atomic structures and X-rays.

3. Animal Science:

To study taxonomy of animals and general classification of animal kingdom.
To study host parasite relationship.
To study animal tissues and their types.
To get the knowledge of applied zoology like vermiculture, apiculture, sericulture, pearl culture.

4. Statastical Methods:

To study fundamentals of statastics and introduction to collection of data.
To study measures of central tendancy and measures of dispersion.
To study correlation and regression.

5. Protein and Enzymes:

To study protein and primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure of proteins with examples.
To study protein purification techniques like methods of cell disruption, salt precipitation, organic solvent precipitation, dialysis and ultrafiltration.
To study enzymes, their classification, lock and key hypothesis, enzyme inhibition etc.
To study coenzymes like thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and pyridoxal phosphate.

6. Basics in cell Biology:

To study basics of cell biology like cell structure, cell theory, organization of prokaryote and eukaryote cell.
To study nucleus, it’s structure, chromosome structure and general features of eukaryotic chromosome.
To study cytoskeletol assemble, microtubules, microfilaments, organization of cilia and flagella.
To get the knowledge of cell membrane and membrane transport.

7. Microbiology II:

To study culture media like living media and non living media.
To study methods of isolation of pure culture such as pour plate, spread plate.
To study microbial growth; continuous growth, synchronous growth, diauxic growth.
To study water and soil microbiology.
To study medical microbiology.

8. Computer Programming:

To get the knowledge of computer programming.
To study fundamentals of ‘C’.
To study Input/output and formatting Input/output.
To study Array-declaration, initialization of one dimensional and two dimensional array etc.

B.Sc. Biotechnology II - Sem III

1. Genetics:

To study Mendel’s law of Inheritance, Dominance and recessiveness and interaction of gene.
To know linkage, linkage groups, crossing-over, structural and numerical changes in chromosomes.
To study maternal effect and extra chromosomal inheritance.
To study transposable elements, plasmid, genetic recombination in bacteria and mechanism of recombination.

2. Fundamentals of Biophysics:

Awareness of instruments used in chemical analysis.
To study analytical instruments such as atomic absorption spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, flame spectroscopy.
To get the knowledge of molecular spectroscopy.
To get the knowledge of molecular method such as Electrophoresis, Chromatography, Tracer techniques.

3. Metabolic pathways:

To study the basic concepts of metabolic pathways.
To get the knowledge of fundamentals of Biochemistry such as carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism and respiration.

4. Ecology:

To study the fundamentals of ecology and concept of ecology.
To get the knowledge of ecosystem, food chain, energy flow in ecosystem.
To study Biogeochemical cycles such as carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, sulphur cycle, phosphorus cycle.
To understand population ecology, population growth and evolution.

5. Molecular Biology I:

To study concepts of molecular biology such as DNA as genetic material, properties and functions of DNA and organization of genome.
To study molecular events such as replication, mutation and DNA repair.

6. Plant tissue culture:

Awareness of plant tissue culture in modern Biotechnology.
To study the techniques of plant tissue culture such as callus culture, ovary culture, anther culture and pollen culture, suspension culture techniques/

B.Sc. Biotechnology II - Sem IV

1. Immunology:

To study immune system of humans.
To get the knowledge of types of immunity, types of defense systems.
Introduction to cells and organs of immune systems
To study antigen and antibody, immune response and antigen-antibody reactions.

2. Advances in Cell Biology;

To study concepts of secretary pathway, protein trafficking and cell signaling.
To get the knowledge of cell division cycle, cell division types –amitosis, mitosis, meiosis.

3. Plant Biochemistry:

To study fundamentals of Plant Biochemistry like plant water relation, photosynthesis.
To study role of nitrogen in plants and nitrogen metabolism.
To get the knowledge of plant hormones such as auxin, cytokinin, and gibberlin.
To study plant growth, phases of growth curve.

4. Environmental Biotechnology:

Awareness of environmental problems and solution.
To study water pollution, air pollution and soil pollution.
To study environmental toxicology, environmental quality assessment and monitoring.
To get the knowledge of bioremediation techniques.

5. Molecular Biology II:

To study molecular events such as transcription and translation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
To study genetic code and regulation of gene expression in prokaryote and eukaryote.

6. Animal tissue culture:

To get the knowledge of importance of animal cell culture.
To study the fundamentals of animal cell culture such as culture media, laboratory design and layout.
To study basic techniques of mammalian cell culture.
Awareness of applications of animal cell culture.

B.Sc. Biotechnology III - Sem V

1. Basics in Genetic Engineering:

To study fundamentals of r-DNA technology and various tools used in r-DNA technology.
To get the basic knowledge of cloning vectors and their types.
To study DNA sequencing and blotting techniques.

2. Industrial Biotechnology:

To get the introduction of industrial biotechnology.
To study basic design of fermenter and its types.
To get the knowledge of downstream process and product recovery.

3. Application of Biotechnology and Agriculture:

To study fundamentals of Agriculture Biotechnology such as crop improvement, somatic hybridization, artificial seed and germplasm preservation.
Awareness of GM crops, GM foods and molecular farming and ethical and social aspects.
To study Biofertilizers and Biopesticides.

4. Developmental Biology:

To study developmental biology of plants and animals.
To get the knowledge of gametogenesis and fertilization in plants and animals.
To study early development in animals.

B.Sc. Biotechnology III - Sem VI

1. Advances in Genetic Engineering:

To study advanced techniques in r-DNA technology like c-DNA, genomic library, isolation of desired gene.
To study PCR and its applications.
To study gene cloning and applications of r-DNA technology.

2. Food and Microbial Biotechnology:

To study microbial cultures and production.
To get the knowledge of fermented foods and beverages.
To study food spoilage and preservation techniques.
Awareness of impact of food on human health.

3. Applications of Biotechnology in Health:

To study Biotechnology applications in health like application of animal cell culture in transgenic technology.
To study practices for vaccine production.
To get the knowledge of monoclonal antibodies and hybridoma technology.
Awareness of forensic medicines and public health.

4. Bioinformatics:

To study basics of Bioinformatics.
To study tools for protein function analysis, homology and similarity, structure analysis.
To get the knowledge of sequence analysis, BLASTA, FASTA, Clustal W, EMBOSS.
To study applications of Bioinformatics.