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Engineering Mathematics

• Eigen Values and Eigen Vectors
• Continuity and Differentiability
• Sequences and Series
• Test for Convergence
• Cauchy’s and Euler’s equations
• Laplace Transforms
• Poisson, Normal and Binomial Distributions
• Integration by Trapezoidal and Simpson’s Rule

General Biology

• Enzymes – Classification, Catalytic and Regulatory Strategies
• Basic Concepts and Regulation of the Metabolism of Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino Acids and Nucleic Acids
• Enzyme Kinetics - Michaelis-Menten Equation
• Viruses - Structure and Classification Methods in Microbiology 
• Microbial Growth and Nutrition Nitrogen Fixation 
• Microbial Diseases and Host-Pathogen Interactions
• Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance
• T cell and B cell Development
• Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) 
• Polyclonal and Monoclonal Antibody 
• Graft Versus Host Reaction
• Immunisation and Vaccines

Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

• Extra Chromosomal Inheritance 
• Microbial Genetics – Transformation, Transduction and Conjugation
• Genetic Disorders
• Population Genetics 
• Epigenetics 
• Cell Cycle and Cell Growth Control
• Cell-Cell Communication 
• Cell Signalling and Signal Transduction 
• Protein Trafficking 
• Cell Death and Autophagy
• Mutations and Mutagenesis 
• Non-Coding and MicroRNA 
• RNA Interference 
• DNA Damage and Repair

Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

• Stoichiometry of Growth and Product Formation
• Laws of Thermodynamics
• Ligand Binding
• Oxidation and Reduction Reactions
• Oxygen Transfer and uptake in a Bioreactor, kLa and its Measurement
• Conductive and Convective Heat Transfer, LMTD, Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
• Heat Exchangers

Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

• Ideal Reactors – Batch, Mixed Flow and Plug Flow 
• Enzyme Immobilization, Diffusion Effects – Thiele Modulus, Effectiveness Factor, Damkoehler Number
• Kinetics of Cell growth, Substrate Utilisation and Product Formation
• Sterilisation of Air and Media
• Filtration – Membrane Filtration, Ultrafiltration
• Principles of Chromatography– Ion Exchange, Gel Filtration, Hydrophobic Interaction, Affinity, GC, HPLC and FPLC
• First-Order and Second-Order Systems
• Types of Controllers – Proportional, Derivative, and Integral Control, Tuning of Controllers

Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

• Totipotency
• Regeneration of Plants 
• Plant Growth Regulators and Elicitors 
• Tissue culture and Cell Suspension Culture System – Methodology, the Kinetics of Growth and Nutrient Optimization 
• Artificial Seeds
• Somaclonal Variation
• Transgenic Plants –Direct and Indirect Methods of Gene Transfer Techniques
• Animal cell and Tissue Preservation
• Kinetics of Cell Growth
• Hybridoma Technology
• Stem Cell Technology
• Animal Cloning
• Transgenic Animals
• Clinical - Food and Industrial Microbiology 
• Screening Strategies for New Products

Recombinant DNA Technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

• Vectors – Plasmids, Bacteriophage and other Viral Vectors, Cosmids, Ti plasmid, Bacterial and Yeast Artificial Chromosomes
• Gene Isolation and Cloning, Strategies for the Production of Recombinant Proteins
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• DNA / RNA Labelling and Sequencing
• In-situ Hybridization
• DNA Fingerprinting, RAPD, RFLP
• Gene Transfer Technologies CRISPR-Cas
• Principles of Spectroscopy – UV,Visible, CD, IR, Fluorescence, FT-IR, MS, NMR, Electrophoresis
• Immunoassays– ELISA, RIA Immunohistochemistry
• Flow Cytometry
• Gene Prediction
• Sequence and Structure Databases 
• Secondary Structure and 3D Structure Prediction
• Metagenomics

Biotechnology

Pranav Kumar

Fundamentals of Biochemistry

Lehninger

Principle of Bioprocess Engineering

P. Doran

GATE Biotechnology

GK Publishers

Life Science part 1 and 2.

Pathfinder publications

Immunology

Kuby

GATE General Aptitude and Mathematics

GK Publishers

Molecular Cell Biology

lodish and Baltimore

Bioprocess Engineering

Schuler & Kargi

Bioprocess Engineering principles

Pauline Doran

Molecular biology of the gene

James Watson

Immunology

Kuby

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Erwin Kreyszig

Principles of Gene Manipulation

Primrose & Twyman

Gene cloning and DNA analysis

T.A Brown

Plant Biotech

Slater

GATE Biotechnology Subject Wise Weightage, Important Topics, Best Books

List of Topics to Score 60+ in GATE Biotechnology

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