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BT-1010 – Section B – Life Sciences (Slot B) (Jan-May 2024)

Instructor – Nathiya Muthalagu

Important dates Percentage grade allocation


17th Jan 2024 – classes commence Quiz 1 – 25%
3rd May 2024 – Last class Quiz 2 – 25%
End Sem – 50%
20th Feb 2024 – Quiz 1

19th Mar 2024 – Quiz 2


7th May 2024 – End Sem.

Note that the dates of the exams will be as


scheduled in the academic calendar.

Weekly schedule:
Regular classes
Three classes per week.
Monday 9 AM – 9.50 AM
Wednesday 1 PM – 1.50 PM
Friday 11 AM – 11.50 AM

No classes on scheduled holidays.

Makeup slot
Tuesday 8 AM – 8.50 AM
As and when required.

Meeting Room: CRC 102

Attendance:
Attendance is compulsory and will be
monitored using a fingerprint scanner.
Students with less than 75% attendance will
be reported to their respective faculty
advisors, and will not be allowed to write the
quizzes/ End sem.
Cell Structure, Cell Cycle
CORE MODULE SYLLABUS 6. Overview: The importance of cells
(The numbers below refer to the concept 6.1 To study cells, biologists use microscopes
numbers in Campbell and Reece, Biology, and tools of biochemistry
7th 7.1 Cellular membranes are fluid mosaics of
edition) lipids and proteins
Origin of Life and Evolution 7.2 Membrane structure results in selective
26.1 Conditions on early earth made the origin permeability
of life possible 6.2 Eukaryotic cells have internal membranes
26.2 The fossil record chronicles life on earth that compartmentalize their functions
Page 8, Chapter 1 – two different types of cells 6.3 The eukaryotic cell’s genetic instructions
26.3 As prokaryotes evolved, they exploited are housed in the nucleus and carried out
and changed young earth by ribosomes
26.4 Eukaryotic cells arose due from 6.4 The endomembrane system regulates
symbioses and genetic exchanges between protein traffic and performs metabolic
prokaryotes functions in the cell
1.3 Biologists explore life across its great 6.5 Mitochondria and chloroplasts change
diversity of species energy from one form to another
1.4 Evolution accounts for life’s unity and 6.6 The cytoskeleton is a network of fibers that
diversity organizes structures and activities in the
22.1 The Darwinian revolution challenged cell
traditional views of a young earth inhabited by 6.7 Extracellular components and connections
unchanging species between cells help coordinate cellular
22.2 In The Origin of Species, Darwin activities
proposed that species change through natural 12.1 Cell division results in genetically
selection identical daughter cells
22.3 Darwin’s theory explains a wide range of 12.2 The mitotic phase alternates with
observations interphase in the cell cycle
Biomolecules, Enzymes, Introduction to 13.2 Fertilization and meiosis alternate in
Metabolism sexual life cycles
4. Overview of Carbon: The backbone of 13.3 Meiosis reduces the number of
biological molecules chromosome sets from diploid to haploid
5.1 Most macromolecules are polymers built Mendelian Genetics
from monomers 14.1 Mendel used the scientific approach to
5.2 Carbohydrates serve as fuel and building identify two laws of inheritance
material 14.2 The laws of probability govern Mendelian
5.3 Lipids are a diverse group of hydrophobic inheritance
molecules 14.3 Inheritance patterns are often more
5.4 Proteins have many structures, resulting in complex than predicted by simple Mendelian
a wide range of functions genetics
5.5 Nucleic acids store and transmit hereditary 14.4 Many human traits follow Mendelian
information patterns of inheritance
8.1 An organism’s metabolism transforms Chromosome, DNA Structure, Replication,
matter and energy, subject to the laws of Transcription and Translation
thermodynamics 15.1 Mendelian genetics has its physical basis
8.3 ATP powers cellular work by coupling in the behaviour of chromosomes
exergonic reactions to endergonic reactions 16.1 DNA is the genetic material
8.4 Enzymes speed up metabolic reactions by 16.2 Many proteins work together in DNA
lowering energy barriers replication and repair
9.1 Catabolic pathways yield energy by 17. Overview: The flow of genetic information
oxidizing organic fuels 17.1 Genes specify proteins via transcription
and translation
17.2 Transcription is the DNA-directed
synthesis of DNA: a closer look
17.3 Eukaryotic cells modify RNA after
transcription
17.4 Translation if the RNA-directed synthesis
of a polypeptide: a closer look
17.7 Point mutations can affect protein
structure and function

Additional topics that are not in Campbell


and Reece

1) Diseases (e.g Cancer)


2) Recombinant DNA technology
3) Bioprocess

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