CELL BIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
25CZOL413
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
This course will enable the students to -
1. Explore cellular diversity, membrane structure, and transport mechanisms.
2. Investigate cell junctions, organelles, and the endomembrane system.
3. Analyze mitochondria, nucleus structure, and cell division processes.
 
Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

 

 

CO:85 Explore cellular diversity,

The approach in

Assessmen

 

 

including        prokaryotic                      and

teaching:

t

 

 

eukaryotic cells, viruses, viroids,

Interactive

Strategies

 

 

mycoplasma, and prions, alongside

Lectures,

Class     test,

 

 

various      models      of                 plasma

Discussion,

Semester

 

 

membrane structure and transport

Tutorials, Reading

end

 

 

mechanisms.

assignments,

examination

 

 

CO:86 Investigate cell junctions

Demonstration,

s,         Quiz,

 

 

like      desmosomes     and           gap

Team teaching

Solving

 

 

junctions,     and     examine                   the

Learning

problems  in

 

 

endomembrane system, focusing

activities for the

tutorials,

 

 

on     organelles    such    as        the

students:

Assignments

 

 

endoplasmic      reticulum,                        Golgi

Self-learning

,

 

 

apparatus,       lysosomes,       and peroxisomes.

assignments, Effective

Presentation.

 

CELL

CO:87      Analyze                mitochondria

questions,

 

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structure and function, emphasizing the mitochondrial respiratory chain and cytoskeleton components like

Simulation, Seminar presentation,

 

 

 

microtubules, microfilaments, and

Giving tasks, Chart

 

 

 

intermediate filaments.

CO:88 Examine nucleus structure,

preparation

 

 

 

chromatin      organization,                     and

 

 

 

 

nucleosome packaging, elucidating

 

 

 

 

the nuclear envelope, nuclear pore

 

 

 

 

complex, and nucleolus.

 

 

 

 

CO:89      Study     cell                division

 

 

 

 

processes like mitosis and meiosis,

 

 

 

 

and      explore      cell            signaling

 

 

 

 

mechanisms     such     as                       GPCR

 

 

 

 

signaling and the involvement of

 

 

 

 

second messengers like cAMP.

 

 

 

 

CO:90  Contribute effectively in

 

 

 

 

course-specific interaction.

 

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Overview of Cells
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells, Virus, Viroids, Mycoplasma, Prions Plasma Membrane: Various models of plasma membrane structure
Transport across membranes: Active and Passive transport, Facilitated transport
 
12.00
Unit II: 
Cell Organelles and Cell junctions
Endomembrane System
Structure and Functions: Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, Lysosomes, Peroxisomes Types of cell Junctions
 
12.00
Unit III: 
Mitochondria
Mitochondria: Structure, Semi-autonomous nature, Endosymbiotic hypothesis Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain, Chemi-osmotic hypothesis
Cytoskeleton
Structure and Functions: Microtubules, Microfilaments and Intermediate filaments
 
12.00
Unit IV: 
Nucleus
Structure of Nucleus: Nuclear envelope, Nuclear pore complex
Nucleolus Chromatin: Euchromatin and Heterochromatin and packaging (nucleosome)
 
12.00
Unit V: 
Cell Division & Signalling
Mitosis and Meiosis
Cell cycle and its regulation
Cell Signalling- GPCR and Role of second messenger (cAMP)
 
Essential Readings: 
Cell Biology by C.B. Powar; Himalaya Publishing House.
Cell Biology by Dr. B. S. Tomar Dr. S. P. Singh Rastogi Publications-Meerut. ISBN 10: 8171337538 ISBN 13: 9788171337538
Cell Biology Genetics Molecular Biology, Evolution And Ecology by PS Verma, VK Agarwal. s chand publisher private limited india. 14th Edition
Cell biology by Veer bala Rastogi Medtech; 1st edition ISBN-10 : 8195237258; ISBN 13: 978-8195237258
 
SUGGESTIVE READINGS:
Karp, G. (2010). Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments. VI Edition. John Wiley and Sons. Inc.
De Robertis, E.D.P. and De Robertis, E.M.F. (2006). Cell and Molecular Biology. VIII Edition. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia.
Cooper, G.M. and Hausman, R.E. (2009). The Cell: A Molecular Approach. V Edition. ASM Press and Sunderland, Washington, D.C.; Sinauer Associates, MA.
Becker, W.M., Kleinsmith, L.J., Hardin. J. and Bertoni, G. P. (2009). The World of the Cell. VII Edition. Pearson Benjamin Cummings Publishing, San Francisco.
Bruce Albert, Bray Dennis, Levis Julian, Raff Martin, Roberts Keith and Watson James (2008). Molecular Biology of the Cell, V Edition, Garland publishing Inc., New York and London.
 
References: 
e-RESOURCES:
 
JOURNALS:
Journal of Cell Biology
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
International Journal of Cell Biology 
 
Academic Year: