PG CET Biotechnology exam Syllabus

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SYLLABUS FOR BIO- TECHNOLOGY:
Part -I
Unit-I
History of Microbiology, Classification of protists, Morphological, Structural and Biochemical characteristics of
prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, Growth characteristics of microbes. Methods of microbiology including pure culture
techniques and microscopy, industrially important micro organisms and important fermentation products.
Media formulation principles of microbial nutrition, construction of culture media.
Unit- II
Isolation, improvement and preservation of industrial micro-organisms.
Microbial Genetics: Transformation, Transduction and Conjugation, Structure and Classification of viruses, replication
of viruses including bacteriophages and animal viruses.
Unit-III
Structure of DNA and arrangement of genes on chromosomes, DNA synthesis and replication, RNAsyntheses
and processing, Different classes of RNA and their functions, Riboxymes, Protein expression in prokaryotes and
Pukarytes. Plasmids, Transposable elements, TV elements
Unit-IV
Structure of Bio- Molecules, Metabolsim of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, amino acids and Nucleic acids,
photosynthesis.
Unit - V
Enzymes, specificity, catalysis, kinetics, inhibition and allosteric enzymes, metabolic organization andregularization
of metabolism, Signal transduction.

Part - II
Thermodynamics:
First law of thermodynamics: Internal energy, enthalpy, molar heat capacities, reversible and irreversible processes,
Isothermal and adiabatic changes. Second law: entropy, free energy change and chemical reaction
equilibria. Heat of reaction, Hess’s law, heat of formation, combustion etc.
Chemical Reaction Kinemetics :
Rate of reactions: Molecularity, order and rate constants, Arrhenius equation, Energy of activation, catalysis
design of Ideal Reactors for single reactions.

Mathematics:
Differential and Integral calculus including integration Ordinary and partial differential equations. Laplace transforms
of elementary functions, solution to ordinary differential equation by transform methods. Solutions of a
system of linear algebraic equations by matrix method eigen values, of a square matrix. Fourier and Taylor’s
series. Mean value theorem.

Fluid Mechanics:
Fluids vs solids, Fluids statics and applications, Mass and energy balances in fluid flow, bernoulli’s equation, its
corrections and applications including pump work. Newton’s law of viscosity, flow curves for non-newtonian
fluids.
Pressure drop due to skin friction by Rayleigh’s method of dimensional analysis - significance of friction, factor
and Reynold’s number. Boundary layer theory and form friction pressure drop due to form friction. Flow past
immersed bodies and drag coefficients. Pressure drop in flow through packed beds, Fluidization and pressure
drop across fluidized beds. Flow machinery and control.
Heat transfer Modes of heat transfer and examples, Fourier’s law of heat conduction and analogy with
momentum transfer, heat transfer through a cylindrical pipe wall.
Convection and concept of heat transfer coefficient, application of dimensional analysis to heat transfer from
pipe to a flowing fluid. Thermal boundary layer and prandtl number. Overall heat transfer coefficient.
Correlations for heat transfer coefficients in natural and forced convection, significance of dimension less
numbers, Overview of heat exchanges and concept of LMTD. Overview of other heat transfer operations, viz.
boiling and condensation and evaporation. Overview of radiation, combined heat transfer by conductionconvection
and radiation.
Diffusion and Mass transfer Fick’s law of diffusion, analogy with momentum and energy transport,, diffusivities
of gases and liquids, fundamentals of mass transfer coefficient, dimensionless numbers and significance,
correlation for mass transfer, overview of separation operations, equipment for mass transfer operations, Equilibrium
stage operations.

Mechanical unit operations:
Principles of the following.operations for size reduction and size separation, crushing, grinding,
filtration, centrifugation.