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Syllabus For The GATE Exam!

 Subjects Are...........

  1. Engineering Mathematics
  2. General Biology
  3. Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology
    1. Cell Biology
  4. Fundamentals of Biological Engineering
  5. Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology
  6. Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology
  7. Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology
  8. UNIT 1
    • Biomolecules-structure and functions; 
    • Biological membranes, structure, action potential and transport processes; 
    • Enzymes- classification, kinetics and mechanism of action; 
    • Basic concepts and designs of metabolism (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and nucleic acids) photosynthesis, respiration and electron transport chain; 
    • Bioenergetics.
  9. UNIT 2
    1. Virus: Structure and classification; 
    2. Microbial classification and diversity (bacterial, algal and fungal); 
    3. Methods in microbiology; 
    4. Microbial growth and nutrition; 
    5. Aerobic and anaerobic respiration; 
    6. Nitrogen fixation; 
    7. Microbial diseases and host-pathogen interaction. 
  10. UNIT 4
    1. Molecular structure of genes and chromosomes
    2. Mutation and Mutagenesis
    3. Nucleic Acid Replication, Transcription, Translation, and Regulatory Mechanisms

  11. UNIT 7
    1. Restriction and modification enzymes; 
    2. Vectors; plasmid, bacteriophage and other viral vectors, cosmids, Ti plasmid, yeast artificial chromosome; 
    3. Mammalian and plant expression vectors; 
    4. cDNA and genomic DNA library; 
    5. Gene isolation, cloning and expression; 
    6. Transposons and gene targeting; 
    7. DNA labeling; 
    8. DNA sequencing; 
    9. Polymerase chain reactions; 
    10. DNA fingerprinting; 
    11. Southern and northern blotting; 
    12. In- situ hybridization; 
    13. RAPD, RFLP; 
    14. Site-directed mutagenesis; 
    15. Gene transfer technologies; 
    16. Gene therapy.