Academics

TECHNOLOGY EXTENSION TO AGRI FIELDS



Departments

  • Plant Biotechnology
  • Animal Biotechnology
  • Microbial & Environmental Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics



Course Curriculum Summary

Sr. No. Course Type Number of Courses Total Credits
1. Remedial Courses 02 6
2. General Course 08 18
3. Biotechnology Core Courses 23 64
4. Biotechnology Elective Courses 06 18
5. Ready Programme 03 40
6. Basic Science Course 05 14
7. Agriculture Course 05 3+12*=15
8. Animal Sciences Courses 05 3+12**=15
9. Educational Tour (ET351 and ET472) 02 2
10. NSS/NCC/DEG/PHYEDN 06 6NC
Compulsory Credits 178
Total Credits 186 (174 + 6 NC + 6 Remedial)
  • * 12 Credit hours of Agriculture courses exchangeable with
  • ** 12 Credit hours of Animal Science courses.
  • Core courses up to V semester
  • Elective Courses in Biotechnology in VI Semester: 4 (One to choose as per dept.)
  • Student READY Programme:VII & VIII Semester (Skill Dev. & Industry Link Research Project)
  • Job opportunity: Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Companies, Corporate sector, Agriculture Seed Companies, Research & Development Companies, Civil Service Competitive Exams, Banking, and Self-Business etc.
  • Higher Education: M. Tech. & PhD
  • Syllabus link: click Here

B. Tech (Biotechnology) Degree Course Layout:

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Course No Course Title Credit
BOT-111 Basic Botany 2+1
ZOO-121 Basic Zoology 2+1
MATH-111 Basic Mathematics – I 3+0
MATH-122 Basic Mathematics - II 3+0
BOT-111 + ZOO-121 or MATH-111 + MATH-122
Course No Course Title Credit
CSPD-111 Communication Skills and Personality Development 1+1
EDBM -241 Entrepreneurship Development and Business Management 1+1
ECON-231 Economics and Marketing 3+0
ENV-111 Environmental Studies and Disaster Management 2+1
FT-111 Food Science and Processing 1+1
HD-111 Human Ethics 1+0
ICT-231 Information and Communication Technology 1+1
ICT-352 Agricultural Informatics 2+1
Course No Course Title Credit
BT-111 Cell Biology 2+0
BT-112 Basic Genetics 2+1
BT-113 Introduction to Biotechnology 2+1
BT-124 Plant Tissue Culture 2+1
BT-125 Molecular Biology 2+1
BT-236 Recombinant DNA Technology 2+1
BT-247 Introductory Bioinformatics 2+1
BT-248 Plant Genetic Transformation 2+1
BT/ECE-241 Fundamentals of Electronics and Instrumentation in Biotechnology 1+1
BT-249 Classical and Molecular Cytogenetics 2+1
BT-3510 Immunology 2+1
BT-3511 Molecular Genetics 2+0
BT-3512 Nanobiotechnology 2+0
BT-3513 Animal Biotechnology 3+1
BT-3514 Molecular Marker Technology 2+0
BT-3515 Genomics and Proteomics 3+0
BT-3516 IPR, Biosafety and Bioethics 2+0
BT-3617 Computational Biology 2+1
BIOCHEM- 241 General Biochemistry 3+1
BIOCHEM- 352 Enzymology and Enzyme Technologies 2+1
BOT /ZOO-121 Biodiversity and its Conservation 2+0
MICRO-121 Microbiology 2+1
MICRO-242 Microbial Genetics 2+1

As per the decision taken during Review Meeting on the Status of Implementation of Recommendations of Fifth Deans’ Committee held on 2-3 June, 2017 at Central Agril. Univ., Ranipool Campus, Gangtok, Sikkim, initially elective courses preferably on Plant Biotechnology should be offered to the students in the concerned colleges of Agricultural Universities in Maharashtra.

Course No Course Title Credit
PBTEL-361 Plant Tissue Culture and its Applications 2+1
PBTEL-362 Principle sand Applications of Plant Genetic Transformation 2+1
PBTEL-363 Applications of Genomics and Proteomics 2+1
PBTEL-364 Molecular Breeding in Field Crops 2+1
PBTEL-365 Molecular Breeding of Horticultural Crops and Forest Trees 2+1
PBTEL-366 Epigenetics and Gene Regulation 2+1
Elective II. Animal Biotechnology
ABTEL-361 Principles and Procedures of Animal Cell Culture 2+1
ABTEL-362 Animal Genomics 2+1
ABTEL-363 Embryo Transfer Technologies 2+1
ABTEL-364 Transgenic Animal Production 3+0
ABTEL-365 Molecular Diagnostics 2+1
ABTEL-366 Molecular Virology and Vaccine Production 2+1
Elective III. Microbial and Environmental Biotechnology
MEBTEL-361 Microbial Biotechnology 2+1
MEBTEL-362 Bio-prospecting of Molecules and Genes 3+0
MEBTEL-363 Molecular Ecology and Evolution 3+0
MEBTEL-364 Fundamentals of Molecular Pharming and Biopharmaceuticals 2+1
MEBTEL-365 Food Biotechnology 2+1
MEBTEL-366 Green Biotechnology 2+1
Elective IV. Bioinformatics
BIFEL-361 Programming for Bioinformatics 2+2
BIFEL-362 Bioinformatics Tools and Biological Databases 2+1
BIFEL-363 Structural Bioinformatics 2+1
BIFEL-364 Pharmacogenomics 2+1
BIFEL-365 Metabolomics and System Biology 2+1
BIFEL-366 Computational Methods for Data Analysis 1+1
Course No Course Title Credit
BOT-232 Plant Physiology 2+1
MATH-233 Biomathematics 2+1
PHY-241 Biophysics 2+1
STAT-121 Basic Statistics 1+1
STAT-362 Biostatistics 2+1
Course No Course Title Credit
AGRO-111 Crop Production Technology 2+1
*HORT-121 Production Technologies for Horticultural Crops 2+1
*PB-121 Principles of Plant Breeding 2+1
*PB-232 Breeding of Field Crops 2+1
*ENT.PL.PATH- 231 Fundamentals of Crop Protection 2+1
Courses marked * are optional to the package of Animal Science courses marked as **

As per the decision taken during Review Meeting on the Status of Implementation of Recommendations of Fifth Deans’ Committee held on 2-3 June, 2017 at Central Agril. Univ., Ranipool Campus, Gangtok, Sikkim, depending upon available facilities, initially module preferably on Plant Biotechnology should be offered to the students in the concerned colleges of Agricultural Universities in Maharashtra.


Course No Course Title Credit
READY-471 In-house Skill Development Modules 20
READY-482 Project Formulation, Execution and Presentation 10
READY-483 Entrepreneurial Development in Biotechnology (on campus /off-campus 10
Course No Course Title Credit
NCC/NSS-111 National Service Scheme I 0+1 NC
DEG-111 Democracy, Elections and Good Goverence 1+0 NC
NCC/NSS-122 National Service Scheme II 0+1 NC
NCC/NSS-233 National Service Scheme III 0+1 NC
NCC/NSS-244 National Service Scheme IV 0+1 NC
PHYEDN-111 Physical Education and Yoga 0+1 NC
Course No Course Title Credit
ET-351 Educational Tour 0+1
ET-472 Educational Tour 1+0
Degree programme: B. Sc. (Agril. Biotechnology)
Departments
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Department of Plant Biotechnology
  • Department of Post-Harvest and Food Biotechnology
  • Department of Animal Biotechnology
  • Department of crop Science
Duration : 4 years-8 Semesters
Tentative layout of the syllabus :
I to VI semester Course work 119 credits
VII semester Seminar : 1 credits Cafeteria courses : 20 credits ( 10 credits from major department) (10 credits from2 minor department)
VII semester Hands on training 20 credits
Total Credits 160 credits
Non credit courses NCC/ NSS : 0+1 credits English : 1+1 credits Physical Education :0+1credit
Deficiency course Math : 1+1 credits
Grand total 166 credits
Passing system Separate passing, 40% required in both Theory and Practical & Total passing  at 55%
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