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CELL BIOLOGY [1]

Paper Code: 
BTE 202
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45
Objective: 

On completion of this course the students will be able to:

CO 22: Identify fundamentals of the cell and its various components

CO 23:  Examine membrane structure and transmembrane transport mechanisms

CO 24: Interpret and summarize the physiology of cell organelles

CO 25: Assess the fundamentals of nuclear structure and it’s functions and compare and contrast the different Cytoplasmic filaments
 

CO 26: Analyze the concept of cell division and cellular differentiation

7.00
Unit I: 
Cell Structure
  • Cell as a basic unit of living system, The Cell theory.
  • Structure of different cell types -Eukaryotic cells- Animal cell and Plant cell; Prokaryotic cell - Bacteria, Mycoplasma.

 

7.00
Unit II: 
Cell membrane and Transmembrane Transport
  • Cell membrane structure.
  • Cell membrane models-Unit membrane model and Singer and Nicholson’s model.
  • Passive and Active transport through cell membrane.

 

10.00
Unit III: 
Cell Organelles
  • Structure and function of cell organelles- Nucleus, Golgi Bodies, Endoplasmic reticulum (rough and smooth), Ribosome, Mitochondria, Chloroplast, Lysosomes, and Micro bodies.

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Nucleus & Cell Motility
  • Chromosomes-chemical composition and structural organization, Polytene and Lamp brush chromosomes.
  • Cytoplasmic filaments-Microfilaments, Intermediate filaments, microtubule, cilia and flagella.

 

10.00
Unit V: 
Cell cycle, Division and Specialization
  • Cell division and cell cycle, centrioles, Cell-cell junctions.
  • Cellular differentiation and specialization (Muscle and Nerve cell)

 

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  • Cell & Molecular Biology, 8th edition, E D P Roberties & E M F Roberties,  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017
  • Cell and Molecular Biology, 3rd edition, P Sheeler and D E Bianchi, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1987
  • Cell Biology: Organelle Structure and Function, D E Sadava, Panima Publisher Corporation, 2004
  • Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments, 9th edition, G  Karp, John Wiley & sons, Inc., 2021
  • The cell, 5th edition, R C Swanson and P C Webster , Prentice hall of India Pvt. Ltd., 1990
  • The cell. A Molecular Approach, 7th edition, G H Cooper and R E Hausman, ASM Press, 2019

 

REFERENCES: 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

  • The World of the Cell, 7th edition, Wayne M. Becker, Lewis J. Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni, Benjamin Cummings Publishing, 2008
  • Molecular Biology, 5th edition, Robert F. Weaver, WCB Cell & Molecular Biology, 2011
  • Cell Biology, A Short Course,2nd edition,Stephen R. Bolsover, Jeremy S. Hyams, ElizabethA. Shephard, Hugh A.White, Claudia G. Wiedemann, John Wiley & sons, Inc., 2004

 

e RESOURCES:

 

JOURNALS:

  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Nature Methods
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Trends in Cell Biology
  • Journal of Cell Biology
  • Current Opinion in Cell Biology

 

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023 [5]

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[1] https://www.biotech.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/cell-biology-9
[2] http://bama.ua.edu/~hsmithso/class/bsc_495/resources.html%20-
[3] http://bubl.ac.uk/link/c/cellbiology.htm
[4] http://www.cellbio.com/
[5] https://www.biotech.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2022-2023