To enable students to-
Course Outcomes (COs):
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BTE 121
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Cell Biology
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Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
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Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks |
Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation |
Cell as a basic unit of living system, Cell diversity: Cell size, Cell as experiment models: E. Coli, Yeast, C. elegans, Arabidopsis thaliana, Drosophilla melanogaster, Structure and functions of cell organelles in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Cytoskeleton: Self-assembly and dynamic structure of cytosketetal filaments, actin filament, microtubules, movement of cilia and flagella. Cell –Cell interaction: cell adhesion, tight and gap junctions, plasmodesmata.
Energy Conversion: Photophosphorylation, Oxidative phosphorylation, Evolution of electron transport chain. Cell cycle and apoptosis: Events in cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis, Key regulators of cell cycle, programmed cell death and its control.
Membrane transport: Thermodynamics of transportation, passive and active mediated transportation of molecules, Donnan equilibrium, Nernst equation, Na+- K+ ATPase, H+-K+ ATPase, ion gradient driven transportation, mechanism of protein trafficking
Molecular basics of signal transduction in bacteria, plants and animals, secondary messengers, perception of environmental signals, G- protein and tyrosine kinase coupled receptors. Basic techniques in cell biology: microscopy, cell fractionation method, GISH, FISH, histochemical analysis, microtomy, staining and fixation.
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1. Cell and Molecular Biology, (3rd edition), P Scheeler and D E Bianchi, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1987 2. Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments, (4th edition), G Karp, John Wiley & sons, Inc., 2005 3. The cell. A Molecular Approach, (4th edition), G H Cooper and R E Hausman, ASM Press, 2007