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SYLLABUS FOR ENTRANCE EXAMINATION – 2007

MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK (M.S.W.)

1. General Knowledge and Current Affairs

2. Awareness of Social Issues such as

   • Basic Concepts: Society, Community, Association, Social Groups, Culture.

   • Social Institutions: Marriage and Family, Religion and Caste.

   • Major Social Problems: Poverty, Illiteracy, Un-employment, Beggary, Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, Alcoholism, Drug Dependence, Prostitution, Communal Tensions, Indian Labour Problems.

   • Social work – Social Welfare – Social Service - Social Reform – Social Security.

   • Development: Social and Economic Indicators

   • National and International Organizations involved in Social Welfare – Role of Voluntary Action in Social Development

   • Problems of Children, Youth, women and aged – Social Legislation pertaining to Women and Children.

   • Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy, Constitutional Safeguards for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes – Welfare programmes for Backward Classes.

   • Welfare of Physically and Mentally Challenged – Human Behavior, Personality, Intelligence, Stages of Human Development – Attitudes, Groups and Leadership.

   • Demography and Family Welfare

   • Basic Health Issues, Health Services and Health Education

   • Rural, Urban and Tribal Development – Environmental Protection Activities.

   • Human Rights

   • Globalisation

   • Issues concerned with Human Resource Management.

   • Reasoning

   • Numerical ability

SYLLABUS FOR COMMON ENTRANCE TEST-2007

M. Sc., BIOTECHNOLOGY

1. Fundamentals & Techniques: Chemical bonds- covalent, co-ordinate and hydrogen, Van Waals forces, hydrophobic and ionic interactions. Viscosity, Thermodynomic principles and their applications in biology. Electromagnetic spectrum and its importance in biology.

Techniques- Microscopy, Staining, Spectroscopy, Chromatography, Electrophoresis, Centrifugation and Tracers-isotopes. 8

2. Biochemistry: Structure and functions of: proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids and Nucleic acids Enzymes: Kinetics, Mechanism of action of co-enzymes. Metabolism: Glycolysis, TCA-cycle, Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation. Photorespiration. Photochemical reactions-phtosynthesis. 8

3. Cell-biology nad Genetics: Structure of pro-karyotic and Eu-karyotic cells- Cell-wall, Mambranes, Cell organelles-organization and functions, Chromosome-Structure and functions-Gaint chromosomes, Cell division.

Principles of Mandelian inheritance, gene concept, interaction of genes, linkage, extra chromosomal inheritance, mutation, chromosomal aberrations and genetic disorders. 5

4. Molecular Biology: Organization of Chromatin, Replication, transcription and translation. Genetic code, DNA damage and repair, Recombinant DNA-technology and applications. Developmental bilogy: Gametogenesis, fertilization, morphogensis, differentiation and regeneration. 6

5. Physiology: General-Osmoregulation, active transport across membrane. Vitamins, Gas exchange reactions in plant and animals, Blood components and their functions. Evolution-origin of life, organic evolution, theories. Plant physiology- tansport of metabolites, minerals nutrition, nitrogen fixation, physilogy of flowering and tropism, ascent of sap and transpiration. Animal physiology-digestion, absorption, respiration, muscle contraction, conduction of nerve impulses- sense organs, receptors. Endocrine glands-hormones (plant and animals) mechanism of action, reproduction. 10

6. Environmental Biology: Concept of eco-system, food chain and energy flow, Environmental pollution and its managent, Biodiversity and its conservation. 3

7. Microbiology: Bacteria, fungi and viruses- Culture of micro-organisms structure, classification, reproduction, Importance of microbes in disease and as tools in bio-technology. 4

8. Immunology: Immune system, Types of immunity, Immunization, and Immune disorders. 2

9. Cell culture Techniques: Principles of plant and animal tissue culture and its aplication. 2

10. Aplied Biology: Economic importance of plants and animals. Application of microbes in agriculture and industry. Basics of bio-statics and bio-informatics. 2

SYLLABUS FOR COMMON ENTRANCE TEST -2007

M.Sc., BIOCHEMISTRY

1. Units and Measurements: CGS and SI units and derived units. 2

2. Chemical bonding: Ionic bond, covalent bond, hybridization of atomic orbitals. weak forces of interaction-hydrogen bond, electrostatic, Van der Waals and hydrophobic. Hydrogen bonding in water. Co-ordination chemistry-co-ordinate compounds, complexes, co-ordinate bond in iron and magnesium, ligands and chelates, Werners theory. 4

3. Thermodynomics: First and second laws of thermodynomics, enthalpy,entropy, free energy, Gibb's free energy. Free energy change and temperture, free energy change and chemical equilibria. 3

4. Kinetics: Order and molarity of a reaction, rate of a reaction, effect of temperature on rate. Arrhenius equation, Transition state theory,catalysis, Equilibrium constant. 2

5. Acids bases and salts: Weak and strong acids and bases, conjugated acids and bases, strength of acids and bases, pH, buffers, common ion effect. Law of mass action. 2

6. Biochemical Techniques: Principles of paper chromatography and TLC. Electrophoresis, Ion-exchange chromatography. Tracers- Radio-isotopes, half life of radio-isotopes, detection of radioactivity. Fusion and fission. Centrifugation. 5

7. Hydrocarbons: Aliphatic and aromatic compounds-IUPAC system of naming of aliphatic hydrocarbons. Aromatic compounds-Huckel's rule, Kekule's structures. Reactions of alcohols,phenols,carbonyl compounds,amines, hydroxy acids, di- and tri- carboylic acids. 2

8. Hetrocyclic compounds: Occurrence and biological functions of pyrrole, pyridine, indole, thiozole, purine and pyrimidines. 2

9. Biomolecules: Steriochemistry: Sterioisomerism, chirality, D, L, R and S notations, Fisher's projection formulae, enanentiomers, diasteriomers. Racemization, resolution of racemic mixtures.

Carbohydrates-Occurrence, classification, structure and properties of glucose, sucrose, starch, cellulose and glycogen.

Lipids-Nomenclature,physicochemical properties of fatty acids, triglycerides and phospholipids. Structure and occurrence of terpenes,steriods. Stucture and occurrence of alkaloids.

Proteins: aminoacids- classification, steriochemistry, structure and properties. Peptide bond, primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary stuctures of proteins. Denaturation of proteins. Nucleic acids: structure of nucleiosides and nucleotides. structure of DNA and different types of RNA's. Chargaff's rule. Spectral properties of nucleic acids- hypo and hyperchromic effects. 12

10. Enzymes: Classification, Michaelis-Menton hypothesis, enzyme inhibition. Effect of pH, temperature and substrate concentration on enzyme activity. Applications of enzymes. 3

11. Metabolism: Glycolysis, TCA cycle,gluconeogenic pathway, Oxidative phosphorylation, ATP synthesis, photosynthesis, Amino acid degradation-transamination, deamination, urea cycle, salvage pathway of purines, formation of uric acid. 6

12. Molecular Biology: Central dagma of molecular biology, DNA replication,. Multimolecular assemblies-ribosome and plasma membrane. Sub-cellular organelles-mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulam. 4

13. Hormones and Immunology: Classification of hormones-Insulin and progesterone. Immunty-antigens and antibodies. Classification of antibodies. 3