Department of Biotechnology _{Course Outcomes (COs)}

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BTG101

Basic Genetics

Student will be able to understand the characteristics of sex chromosomes and autosomes.

Student will be able to understand the fundamental principles of genetics.

 Student will be able to understand regulatory sequences of replication and transcription, DNA packaging in to nucleus, special chromosomes.

Student will be able to understand extra-chromosomal inheritance and population genetics

BTG102

Fundamentals of Biotechnology

The students will learn the history and scope of Biotechnology.

The students will be able to learn about various diagnostic technique.

The students will learn about role of biotechnology in healthcare.

The students will understand the biosafety measure need to be taken while working on various biotechnological aspects.

BTG103

Molecular Diagnostics

Students will be able to understand Serological based methods in molecular diagnostics.

Students will be able to understand DNA based methods in diagnostics

 Students will be able to understand different methods of DNA sequencing.

Students will be able to understand Analyte identification in different samples

BTG104

Fundamentals of Cell Biology

Students will learn various types of domains of life, membrane architecture and transport across the membrane.

Students will learn the structure and functions of various cell organelles.

Students will learn genomic organization of eukaryotic cells. They will understand cell cycle and its regulation.

Students will learn the various modes of transport across the endomembrane system.

BTG105

Principles of Biochemistry

Understand the basics of pH and buffers as well as the structure and functions of various carbohydrates.

Learning details about the structure, types and functions of amino acids and levels of organization as well structure and biological importance of diverse proteins.

Acquire knowledge about the nucleic acids, its types and different classes of porphyrins and their biological importance.

Gain knowledge about the structure, classification and importance of lipids as storage and also as structural component of biological membranes.

BTG106

Bioanalytical Tools

The students would familiarize with the use and applications of different microscopes in the biological research and also about the instrumentation and principle of pH meter.

The students could be able to characterize certain functionalities of biomolecules using spectroscopic techniques and assimilate knowledge about the principle and applications of centrifuge in research and related experiment.

The students will acquire knowledge about the types, principle and instrumentation of chromatographic techniques.

The students will understand the working principle, instrumentation and applications of crystallography and electrophoresis.

BTG107

Fundamentals of Plant Biotechnology

Students will be able to explain the basics of the physiological and molecular processes that occur during plant growth and development. Understand the different types of culture which can be used in crop improvement.

Understand how biotechnology can be used to assist plant breeding for pure line or homozygous line.

Will be able to explain how biotechnology is used for plant improvement, widening the genetic base by distant hybridization.

Will be able to use basic biotechnological techniques/ molecular biology concept in sustainable crop production/ improvement. Will understand the use of processes involved in the planning, conduct and execution of plant biotechnology experiments.

BTG108

Fundamentals of Molecular Biology

Students will be able to know about the structure of DNA molecules and characteristics of the replication process.

Students will be able to understand the mechanism involved in DNA damage repair.

Students will be able to understand prokaryotic and Eukaryotic transcription and RNA processing.

 Students will be able to understand the mechanism of protein synthesis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

BTG109

Bioprocess Technology

The students will learn the basic of biochemical process kinetics and fermentation technology.

The students will learn the Different types of bioreactors and their working principles used for microbial fermentation technology and sterilization technology.

The students will learn the Chronological hierarchy of bioprocess technology (upstream process to downstream product recovery process) in food and pharmaceutical sector.

The students will learn the Role of bioprocess technology in waste treatment plants for environment remediations.

BTG110

Basics of Animal Biotechnology

The students will be able to comprehend the fundamental concepts of animal cell culture and to be acquainted with the various sterilization techniques.

 The students will be able to discuss the various gene transfer methods used in animal biotechnology.

he students will understand about embryo transfer technology and cloning.

The students will gain knowledge about transgenesis concerning animal models.

BTG111

Basic Virology

The students should get familiarized with the history, nomenclature and taxonomy of prokaryotic, plant and animal viruses.

The students should develop an understanding of the various methods available for diagnosis, purification and analysis of viruses.

The students should be able to differentiate between viruses and other virus-like infectious agents such as viroids, prions, mycoplasma etc.

The students should develop an understanding of the structure, symptoms and replication mechanisms of different groups of viruses.

BTG112

Introduction to Food Biotechnology

Students will learn about the history of Food microbiology and microorganisms associated in natural food products and their classification, major biochemical changes in food, and food-borne diseases.

Students will learn about the different methods and principles of food processing and preservation.

Students will learn about the principles of food packaging and Different fermentation products

Students will learn about the regulations for food quality control.

BTG113

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Students will learn to understanding descriptive statistics and graphical representation of the data, concepts of probability and describe the roles biostatistics serves in the discipline of health sciences.

Students will understand to interpret commonly reported statistical measure and apply hypothesis testing using statistical distributions.

Students will learn about nucleic acid and protein sequence databases, structural databases, literature databases, genome and organism-specific databases. They will learn sequence comparison and trace evolutionary relationship.

Students will learn about the data generating techniques for sequence analysis. Understand the structure of different protein databases.

BTG114

Biotechnology and Human Welfare

The students will be able to explain the principles of protein and metabolic engineering in Industrial Biotechnology and could also evaluate biotechnological approaches for bioremediation, pollutant biodegradation etc.

The students will be able to illustrate the applications of genetic engineering in plant and compare various DNA transfer techniques in mammalian cells and assess the impact of transgenic animals on biodiversity conservation and livestock improvement.

The students will be able to analyze the role of biotechnology in forensics, molecular diagnostics and molecular therapeutics.

The students will be able to differentiate between various vaccine types as well as critically evaluate the types and ethical concerns of gene therapy.

BTG115

Introduction to Genetic Engineering

Students will learn the type of plasmids, their structures, properties, and mechanism of gene cloning. They will understand restriction enzymes and other DNA modifying enzymes and their properties, mode of action and applications.

The students will various vectors, their design, working and use for DNA modification. They will learn to evaluate cloning for positive/ negative results.

The students will learn the importance and application of mutagenesis in protein engineering. Need of protein-protein interaction and detection.

The students will understand the methods of vector delivery into hosts for manipulation. Application of genetic engineering in pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and DNA fingerprinting.

BTY118

Genomics & Proteomics

Students will understand the various types of genomes and their features. They will learn evolution of genomes and genes along with hypothesis.

Students will learn biotechnological approaches used for sequencing of genes and genomes by considering an example of human genome sequencing project

Students will learn various biotechnological approaches used for protein identification and analysis, protein-protein interaction, and protein engineering.

Students will learn the strategies for 3-dimensional structure prediction of proteins, protein mutants and various tools for the same.

BTY397A

Introduction to Food Biotechnology

Students will learn about the history of Food microbiology and microorganisms associated in natural food products and their classification, major biochemical changes in food, and food-borne diseases.

Students will learn about the different methods and principles of food processing and preservation.

Students will learn about the principles of food packaging and Different fermentation products.

Students will learn about the regulations for food quality control.

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BTY511

Molecular Biology

Students will learn about the history of DNA, DNA packaging in the nucleus, and different types of RNAs.

Students will be able to understand the nucleic acid replication process in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

 Students will be able to understand transcription in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic and different types of RNA processing.

 Students will be able to understand protein synthesis process in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

BTY512

Molecular Biology Laboratory

Students will learn to isolate various types of nucleic acids and plasmid DNA

The students will learn techniques for DNA detection and quantification

The students will learn various techniques to check quality estimation of DNA and protein

The students will learn the DNA recovery from agarose gel

BTY513

Cell Biology

Students will learn various types of domains of life, membrane architecture, and transport across the membrane.

Students will learn the structure and function of various cellular organelles and various modes of transport across the endomembrane system

Students will learn genomic organization of eukaryotic cells. They will understand cell cycle and its regulation.

Students will learn signal transduction and mechanisms.

BTY515A

Biochemistry

The students will understand the stoichiometry of water and its role as buffers as well as the structure and utilization of various carbohydrates in the biology field.

The students will learn in detail about the structure, types and functions of amino acids and levels of organization as well structure and biological importance of diverse proteins.

The students are able to understand the basic structure of porphyrin- metallo porphyrins, diverse lipids classes and various fat- and water-soluble vitamins and also their biological importance.

The students could gain knowledge about the major bioenergetic processes and structures and types of nucleic acids.

BTY521

Recombinant DNA technology

Students will learn about Principles of isolation of DNA, RNA and plasmids, Quantification of nucleic acids, Molecular biology techniques

Students will learn about  Enzymes used for modification of DNA in recombinant DNA technology.

Students will learn about Cloning and expression vectors, transformation, transfection

Students will learn about Genomic DNA and cDNA liberary preparation, Nucleic acid hybridization techniques, Application of recombinant DNA technology, study of protein protein interaction

BTY522

Recombinant DNA Technology Laboratory

Students will be able to perform nucleic acid and plasmid DNA isolation from any cell type

Students will be able to perform the basic steps involved in recombinant DNA technology like restriction digestion, ligation, transformation, preparation of competent cells

student will able to execute the PCR experiments

BTY523

Animal Biotechnology

Different types of media used in animal tissue culture

Methods of primary culture, calculation of doubling time, culture age etc., organ culture

Stem cells and tissue engineering, techniques to scale up animal tissue culture

Cryopreservation and transport of animal germplasm, gene cloning, transgenic animals and techniques to diagnose genetic diseases

BTY524

Animal Biotechnology Laboratory

Students will be able to understand the basic cell culture lab design and preparation of different culture media

Students will be able to understand the importance of different sterilization techniques

students will be able to understand the basic procedure of maintenance of cell lines

Students will be able to understand the different cryopreservation techniques for animal cell lines

BTY527B

Bioanalytical Techniques

Students will be able to understand the working principles of nucleic acid characterization, amplification and detection.

Students will be able to understand bio-molecules separation using electrophoresis and chromatography.

Students will be able to understand advanced techniques of biotechnology like NMR spectroscopy, X ray crystallography.

Students will be able to understand tissue sectioning for further microscopic procedures via microtomy.

BTY541

Biostatistics

Students would understand the importance of collection, tabulation, data analysis and graphical inference of biological studies

Students would learn application of statistical methods applied to biological data obtained in experimental findings.

Student would understand basic theory of experimental designs and software-based case study in analysing the data.

Student will Understand this course in relation to research statistics used in plant, animal and microbial biotechnology

BTY542

Genetics

Students will be able to understand the organization of nucleosome, different parts of chromosomes as well as special chromosomes.

Students will have conceptual knowledge on gene and its principles and the concept of extrachromosomal inheritance.

Students will be able to understand the role of mutations in day-to-day life.

Students will be able to calculate recombinant frequencies, construct pedigree analysis and study chromosomal aberrations in humans.

BTY631A

Environmental Biotechnology

The students will learn the role of biotechnology in environmental sustainability using microbial approaches.

The students would gain knowledge about wastewater treatment methods, effluent and sewage treatment plants and would learn strategies to convert environment waste into value-added products.

The students will learn about environmental pollutants (Xenobiotics, pesticides and hydrocarbons), solid waste assessment and management, and bioremediation.

The students will be able to understand the concept of biosensors, bioindicators, state of art technology for biofertilizers and Integrated pest management system.

BTY632

Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory

Students will acquire handling skills to measure physical, chemical and biological analysis of industrial waste water in terms of SVI, TDS, pH, chlorine content, BOD and COD.

Students will learn how to isolate environmentally important micro-organisms in relation to pesticide, dye degradation, nitrogen fixing and phosphate solubilizing microbes.

BTY525

Fermentation and bioprocess technology

Understand the basics of bioprocess engineering principles calculations and different types of bioreactors.

Understand different fermentation process kinetics, isolation of industrial important microbes, media and inoculum

development and rheology of media.

Understand different sterilization process, principles involved in measurement and control of process variables at industrial

scale.

Understand downstream product recovery technology, scale up technology and learn industrial production of some significant

commercial products

BTY526

Fermentation and bioprocess technology laboratory

Student will learn basics skills in handling microbiological techniques and equipment for sterilization, media preparation and isolation of industrially important microbial strains.

Students will learn how to study growth kinetics of industrially important isolated strain and would be able to determine its thermal death point with substrate degradation/utilization and yield coefficient.

Students would be able to conduct study for production of different compounds important in food and pharmaceutical sectors.

BTY635A

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Basic algorithms for sequence alignment and steps and softwares involved in whole genome sequencing

 Processing and clustering of ESTs, Human Genome sequencing project , annotation strategies

Types of Databases in Bioinformatics and protein secondary structure prediction

 Proteins tertiary structure prediction, Sequence motifs databases

BTY636A

Nanobiotechnology

The students will understand the concept of nanomaterials and nanotechnology. The mechanism of nanoparticle synthesis and techniques of characterization.

The students will understand the role of nanotechnology in bioimaging, disease diagnostics, interaction of nanomaterials with biological matrices, and targeted therapy using NPs.

The students will learn the background of sensors and advancement with the use of nanobiosensors. Role of nanotechnology in tissue engineering and disease diagnostics. Role of nanotechnology in agriculture.

The students will learn the role of nanotechnology on cancer detection and treatment. Development of targeted drugs for cancer treatment. Role of nanotechnology in disease treatment.

BTY683

Plant Stress Biology           

Provide information about diverse abiotic and biotic stress affecting plants.

To understand the effects of various stresses on the growth and development of plants.

Discuss the plant-hormone-mediated regulation of stress responses.

Gain an understanding of the various developmental and physiological mechanisms shown by plants against stress.