M.Sc. (MICROBIOLOGY)

FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY:

1. Structure and reactivity of organic compounds: Introduction, hybridization, types of fissions, Types of reagents, Polarization effects, Types of reactions.
2.        Classification and nomenclature of organic compounds.
3.      Thermodynamics: Introduction, Laws of thermodynamics
4.      Chemical Kinetics: Introduction, Rate of reaction, order of reaction (zero, first, second), molecularity, pseudo reactions.
BIOCHEMISTRY & MICROBIOLOGY:


1.    Water as biological solvent, pH, cell and cell organelles.
2.   Bio molecules – Classification, structure, function, physical and chemical properties of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
3.  Metabolism – Catabolic and anabolic reactions of carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism, amino acid metabolism, nucleic acid metabolism.
4.    Physiology – Digestive, respiratory, circulatory, excretory systems, muscle contraction, osmo regulation, nervous system.
5.   Immunology-Types of immune systems, lymphoid argons, lymphoid cells, antigen, types of antigen, antibody, types of antibodies.
6.    Molecular biology – DNA as genetic element, mechanism of replication, transcription, translation, gene expression, r DNA technology.
7.    History of microbiology, classification of microbes.
8.    Micro biological methods – isolation, maintenance, preservation, microscopy.
9.    Bacteria – Structure, reproduction, recombination, nutrition, bacterial growth, cultures.
Structure, morphology, reproduction of fungi, algae, protozoa.
Control of microbes, anti biotics.
10.   Microbial genetics – mutations, bacterial transformation, conjugation, transduction, transfection, recombination, plasmids.
11.   Viruses – Plant, animal, bacterial viruses, cancer, HIV.