Syllabus
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Course Code: BT-207 Course Name: Biotechnology and Human Welfare-1 |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Industrial Biotechnology Introduction, Isolation and screening of microbes, strain development, process development, Bioreactors, Fermentation Media, Types of fermentation, Downstream processing Production of organic compounds, enzymes and antibiotics by microbes, Microbial transformation, SCP, Probiotics Enzyme Technology, Enzyme immobilization, Ribozyme, Abzyme, Industrial applications of enzymes Protein and enzyme engineering |
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| 2 | Medical Biotechnology Molecular Diagnostics- DNA/RNA probes, PCR to detect infectious diseases Monoclonal antibodies- their production and applications, production of recombinant antibodies Vaccines: live, attenuated, killed, subunit, conjugate and DNA vaccines Gene Therapy-Types of gene therapy, Augmentation Gene therapy, Targeted gene therapy, Ethical issues DNA fingerprinting and forensic analysis, Stem cell technology, Tissue Engineering, Disease treatment using microbial products. |
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