Microbiology

Paper Code: 
ZOL 513
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Critique structure of the bacterial cell
  2. Assess genetic material and reproductive methods in bacteria.
  3. Understand the nutritional requirements and culture of the microbes.
  4. Examine the epidemiology of infectious agents including how infectious diseases are transmitted.
  5. Conjecture interventions employed to prevent infectious diseases including infection control measures and vaccines.

 

Course Outcomes (COs): 

 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment 

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

ZOL-513

Microbiology

The student will

CO 90: Analyse the  morphology of bacterial cell, its genetic material and modes of reproduction

CO 91: Formulate culture media for bacterial culture.

CO 92: Explore epidemiology of infectious agents including how infectious diseases are transmitted.

CO 93: Investigate the interventions employed to prevent infectious diseases including infection control measure and vaccines

The approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, PowerPoint presentations, Explanation by videos

Learning activities for the students:

Self learningassignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test 

Semester end examinations,

Quiz, 

Assignments, 

Presentation

Surprise test

Open book test

 

9.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
  • Brief introduction to the history of Microbiology
  • Work of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
  • Work of Louis Pasteur, John Tyndall, Robert Koch & Jenner
  • Prokaryota(Bacteria)
  • Size, shape & pattern of arrangement
  • Structural Organization—Slime layer(Capsule) Cell envelope, Cytoplasmic membrane(Inner membrane), Cell wall(Outer membrane) of gram-ve and  gram +ve bacteria, Mesosomes; Cytoplasmic organization, Cell projections- Flagella and pili

 

8.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
  • Genetic material of bacteria: Chromosomes, Plasmids, Replication of bacterial DNA
  • Reproduction in Bacteria: Asexual reproduction: Binary fission, budding, Endospore formation& cyst formation Sexual reproduction: Conjugation
  • Transduction, Bacterial recombination and transformation

 

10.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
  • Microbial nutrition culture of Bacteria
  • Carbon & energy source
  • Nitrogen & minerals
  • Oxygen
  • Organic growth factors
  • Microbial growth
  • Environmental factors: Temperature, Hydrogen ion concentration, Osmotic pressure

 

10.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Bacteria of medical importance:

Gram +ve:

  • Cocci : Staphylococci, Streptococci
  • Bacilli: Diptheria, Tetanus

Gram –ve:

  • Cocci: Gonnorrhea, Meningitis
  • Bacilli: Diarrhoea

The causative agents, Transmission, Pathogenecity, Laboratory diagnosis, Treatment & Prevention of:

  • Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis
  • Hepatitis (with emphasis on B type)

 

8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
  • Cyanobacteria (Structural organization and significance),
  • Virus: General Characteristics, structure, classification on the basis of morphology and genetic material
  • Lytic & Lysogenic cycles
  • yeast- industrial application
Essential Readings: 
  • Jacob D.IntroductoryMicrobiology,Ramesh Book Depot,Jaipur.
  • P.D. Sharma, Microbiology,Rastogi and Company, Merrut.
  • David Freifelder-Molecular Biology, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.
  • Salle,S.J. Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology,TataMcGraw Hill Pub. Co., New Delhi.
  • Microbial:T.StuartWalker,W.B.Saunders Company
  • Microbiological Application,AlfredE.Brown,McGraw.Hill
  • Practical Biochemistry:Principles and Techniques; Keith Wilson& John Walker;Cambridge University Press.
  • Lechiman, W.Microbiology, Glenced Pub1. Co. New York
  • Nestler, R.L. Microbiology, W.S. Saunders, Philadelphia (Student edition:Holt-Saunders International Edition, Tokyo).
  • Stonier, T.I. Nouderroff, and Adeloverg, E.A. General Microbiology.
 

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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