On your concern I will get the Indian Institute of Science, Under Graduate Biology program syllabus so that you can have idea.

Here is the syllabus of program

Semester 1
Introductory Biology- I (Organismal Biology and the Molecular Basis of Life)
Introduction to the world of living organisms; levels of biological organisation; diversity of life on earth; history and evolution of life on earth; mechanisms of evolution; genetic basis of natural selection; measuring the rate of natural selection; organisms and their environment; adaptation; behaviour and ecology; biological species diversity; environmental degradation, conservation and management; the future of life on earth.

Concepts of pH/pKa, structures of water, amino acids, peptides and proteins; chemistry of DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates; elementary enzymology and molecular biology; Introduction to various model organisms. Cell as a unit of living organisms, cellular organelles:

Structure and function, organization of cytoskeleton and nuclei, ER-Golgi modifications, Vesicle-mediated protein transport, endocytosis and exocytosis, mitochondria and respiration.

Semester 2
Introductory Biology- II (Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics)
Introduction to the microbial world and its diversity; importance of microbes in exploration of basic principles of biology; bacterial growth and its modulation by nutrient availability in the medium; structure and function of a bacterial cell; structure of cell wall; isolation of auxotrophs; life cycles of temperate and lytic bacteriophages, structure and function of extra-chromosomal elements and their applications in molecular microbiology.

Molecular biology (central dogma, replication, transcription, genetic code and translation); examples of post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications; genetic methods of gene transfer in bacteria; Mendelian genetics (segregation and independent assortment); introduction to polytene and lampbrush chromosomes; sex determination and sex linkage in diploids; cytoplasmic inheritance; pedigrees, markers, mapping and genetic disorders; gene frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg principle, and introduction to various model organisms.





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