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Syllabus for DBT-JRF Biotechnology Eligibility Test (BET)

General Pattern and Syllabus of DBT JRF or BET

DBT JRF BET (DBT Junior Research Fellowship Biotechnology Entrance Exam) syllabus consists of question from

  1. Aptitude & General Biotechnology and
  2. General plus specialized branches in Biotechnology

which consists of two parts:

  • Part-A (Aptitude & General Biotechnology) - 150 Marks
  • Part-B (General plus specialized branches in Biotechnology) - 150 Marks

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DBT JRF Syllabus Part-A

Syllabus of DBT JRF Part-A will have all compulsory 75 MCQ questions, out of which 25 will be of analytical aptitude, comprehension and quantitative reasoning type and 50 will be from General Biotechnology.

DBT JRF Syllabus Part-B

Syllabus of DBT JRF Part-B consists of 200 questions out of which only 50 questions need to be answered. Questions in Part B will also include general biotechnology in addition to the specialized areas.

Part wise outline of DBT JRF Syllabus

PART-A: Aptitude & General Biotechnology

  • Aptitude
    • Questions may include Comprehension based, where a written paragraph is given for the students to read and then questions based on that paragraph is asked. They may be designed to test non-verbal reasoning capacity (e.g., by finding the odd one out in a series of abstract pictures), they may also be of quantitative type; designed to test the students ability to comprehend large numbers and do simple calculations.
  • General Biotechnology
    1. Biomolecular structure and function
    2. Methods in Biotechnology
    3. Organization of structure and functions of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
    4. Cellular processes
    5. Recombinant DNA Technology
    6. Genetics Phylogeny & Evolution
    7. Genomics and Proteomics
    8. IPR, Biosafety & Bioethics

Part B: Specialized Branches in Biotechnology

  • Agricultural Biotechnology
    1. Plant Biology, physiology, molecular biology and seed technology
    2. Tissue Culture, Transgenic Technologies and Biotechnology
    3. Molecular Breeding and Genomics
    4. Abiotic and Biotic Stress Biology
    5. Biodiversity
  • Animal Biotechnology
    1. Animal Physiology and Biochemistry
    2. Histology and Embryology
    3. Animal Parasitology
    4. Animal Virology
    5. Immunology
    6. Pathology
    7. Animal Genetics
    8. Molecular Medicine and Surgery
    9. Molecular Diagnostics
    10. Research Methodologies
  • M. Tech. Biotechnology, Biochemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology
    1. Introductory Mathematics
    2. Engineering Principles
    3. Thermodynamics in Biological Systems
    4. Bioprocess Engineering and Technology
    5. Downstream Processing in Biotechnology
    6. Bioprocess Plant Design
  • Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
    1. Major Bioinformatics Resources
    2. Database Searches
    3. Sequence Analysis, Basic concepts
    4. Scoring Matrix, Pairwise sequence alignments, Multiple sequence alignments (MSA), Application in Taxonomy and phylogeny, Comparative genomics
    5. Structural Biology
    6. Proteins
    7. DNA & RNA secondary and tertiary structures, t-RNA tertiary structure
    8. Classification and comparison of protein 3D structures
    9. Application in drug design
  • Environmental Biotechnology
    1. Basic Ecological Concepts and Principles
    2. Chemistry of organic and inorganic chemicals polluting Environment (air, water and soil)
    3. Environmental Pollution
    4. Water Pollution
    5. Waste Water Treatment systems
    6. Treatment of Typical Industrial Effluents
    7. Management of municipal, biomedical and agricultural solid waste
    8. Environmental Pollution control
    9. Environment friendly technologies
    10. Pollution monitoring
    11. Global environmental problems
  • Marine Biotechnology
    1. Important marine organisms and their behavior
    2. Marine resources assessment
    3. Population study and marine environment protection
    4. Oceanography
    5. Types of marine microbes and their biology
    6. Microbial Assessment
    7. Role of microbes in marine environment
    8. Microbial metabolites
    9. Microbial interaction
    10. Culture systems and hatchery techniques
    11. Introduction to marine pharmacology
    12. Manipulation and microbial techniques
    13. Disease diagnosis
    14. Marine organisms and environment interaction
    15. Pollution & Biomaterial interaction
    16. Fouling and corrosion
    17. Wastewater bio-treatment
  • Medical Biotechnology
    1. Vaccinology
    2. Immunotechnology
    3. CMI and Imaging techniques
    4. Genetics in Medical Practice
    5. Genetics of Neurogenetic disorders
    6. Genetic basis of eye disorders
    7. Complex polygenic syndromes
    8. Components of genetic counseling
    9. Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract
    10. Infections of the Respiratory system
    11. Pyrexial Illness
    12. Infections of the Nervous System
    13. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Congenital Infections
    14. Host pathogen interactions in disease process
    15. DNA based diagnosis
    16. Antibody based diagnosis
    17. Proteomics based diagnosis
    18. Gene therapy
    19. Cellular therapy
    20. Recombinant therapy
    21. Immunotherapy
    22. Gene silencing technology
    23. Human disease genes
  • Molecular and Human Genetics
    1. Cell Biology and Cytogenetics
    2. Chromosomal analysis
    3. Principles of Genetics
    4. Common genetic disorders
    5. Human Genome
    6. Organization of human genome
    7. Functional genomics
  • Neuroscience
    1. Neurons
    2. Glial cells
    3. Neurophysiology and Behavior
    4. Major events in early embryonic development
    5. Patterning, polarity and regionalization of the nervous system
    6. Birth and migration of neurons
    7. Neuronal death during development
    8. Neurotrophic factors
    9. Electrical properties of excitable membranes
    10. Electrical properties of neurons, quantitative models of simulations, Hodgkin & Huxley's analysis of squid giant axon
    11. Synaptic transmission and cellular signaling
    12. Sensation and perception
    13. Fundamentals of Motor Systems
    14. Chemical Control of Brain and Behavior
    15. Neural Control of the Breathing
    16. Neural Control of Heart, Cardiovascular Homeostasis
    17. Sleep and Dreaming
    18. Cognitive development and aging
    19. Clinical neurochemistry and Neuropathology
  • Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
    1. Drug metabolism
    2. Pharmacological screening and assays
    3. Enzymes and microbial technology
    4. Biochemical engineering
    5. Downstream processing
    6. Industrial applications

Detailed syllabus of DBT JRF/BET should be downloaded from the official site as it may be subjected to change from time to time.