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PAPER : Introduction to Microbiology and Microbial Diversity.
Learning outcomes-
1. Understanding the development of microbiology as a discipline and the contributions made by prominent scientists in this field.
2. Understanding of the characteristics of different groups of microorganisms, methods to organize or classify them, and basic tools to study them in the laboratory.
3. Understanding the useful and harmful activities of microorganisms
4. Practical knowledge of basic experiments to grow and study microorganisms in the laboratory.
PAPER : Cell Biology
Learning Outcomes-
1. Understanding the structural and functional aspects of different components of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
2. Understanding the folding and transport of proteins among cellular organelles
3. Understanding the role of different signal molecules and their receptors in cellular communication
4. Understanding the cell cycle, its regulation, and how errors in the cell cycle lead to cancer
PAPER : Microbial Biochemistry
Learning outcome:
1. Understanding of various biomolecules that are required for the development and functioning of a bacterial or microbial cell
2. Understanding the role of different types of carbohydrates and their role as structural and functional components such as energy generation and as storage food molecules for the bacterial cells
3. Understanding the multifarious functions of proteins; being able to calculate enzyme activity and other quantitative and qualitative parameters of enzyme kinetics; Also, knowledge about lipids and nucleic acids
4. Hands-on practical knowledge on buffer making, studying enzyme kinetics, and calculating Vmax, Km, and Kcat values
PAPER : Molecular Biology
1. Understanding the genome organization of model organisms, namely E. coli and Saccharomyces, and the molecular mechanisms that underlie mutations
2. Understanding and good knowledge about the three well-known mechanisms by which genetic material is transferred among microorganisms, namely transformation, transduction, and conjugation
3. Understanding the different types of extrachromosomal elements, or plasmids; the nature of the transposable elements in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
4. Practical knowledge of the isolation of plasmid DNA from bacterial cells and its visualization by performing agarose gel electrophoresis
