BSc Forensic Science Biological Science I Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 6.10, 6.11 and 6.12 of the Academic Council of 17 May 2022, brought in one year at a time from 2022-23. The University has published no NEP 2020 syllabus for it. The University examines only the third year of this degree centrally, under exam forms 1S00815 and 1S00816; the colleges examine the first four semesters.
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Syllabus for Biological Science I
Module I: Evolution :
- The science of biology; definition and characteristics of life, levels of organization in the biological world.
- Origin of life: a brief history of the earth, the geological
- timescale in brief, Oparine- Haldane experiment, Miller-
- Urey experiment.
- Theories of evolution: Lamarckism, Darwinism, mutation theory, Neo- Darwinism.
Module II: Biochemistry-I
- Amino acids: definition, structure and classification, reactions of amino acids, isoelectric point.
- Proteins: the structure of proteins-primary, secondary, super secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.
- Enzymes: definition, types, mechanism of action (Lock and key and induced fit model). Michaelis-Menten equation, enzyme inhibition, allosteric enzymes, Isozymes, polymeric enzymes, polymorphic enzymes. Coenzyme and Cofactors.
- Vitamins: significance, deficiencies
Module III: Biochemistry-II
- Carbohydrates: Definition, Classification and
- stereochemistry: isomerism
- and optical activity. Reactions of aldehydes and ketone groups, importance of carbohydrates.
- Carbohydrate metabolism: Glycolysis, Kreb’s Cycle and oxidative phosphorylation, Pentose phosphate pathway, Gluconeogenesis, Glyoxylate cycle.
- Oils and Fats: definition, properties, classification, and nomenclature. Significance of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids and essential fatty acids
Module IV: Classical Genetics :
- Mendel’s laws of inheritance, Population Genetics: Hardy-
- Weinberg equation, non-Mendelian inheritance.
- Genetic material: Griffith’s experiment, Avery-Macleod-
- McCarty experiment, Hershey-Chase experiment, Meselson- Stahl experiment.
- Structure of DNA: X-ray crystallography, Chargaff’s rule,
- Watson- Crick’s double-helical model, forms of DNA.
- RNA as genetic material, Types of RNA
Text books and Additional References
- 1 A text book of Optics, Multicoloured Revised Edition 2014, Subramanyam, Brij Lal, Avadhanulu,S. Chand and Co. Pvt. Ltd, ISBN 2611
- 2 Engineering Physics Seventh Enlarged, Revised Edition 2004, M.N. Avadhanulu and P.G. Kshirsagar, S. Chand and Company Ltd.
- 3 Optics – Ajoy Ghatak (3rd Ed) Mc. Graw Hill Co.
- 4 Modern Physics Concept and Applications – Sanjeev Puri, Narosa Publication.
- 5 Principles of Optics – B. K. Mathur and T. P. Pandya (3rd Ed.) 1981, McGraw Hill International.
- 6 Fundamentals of Optics – Khanna and Gulati (1994), S. Chand.
- 7 Optics – C. L. Arora, S. Cand and Co. Ltd (2001)
- 8 Fundamentals of Physics-Resnik, Halliday and Walker, John Wiley Publication.
- 9 Fundamentals of Optics – Jenkins and White. (4th Ed) McGraw Hill International.
- 10 Fibre Optics – Kaiser, McGraw Hill
- 11 Lasers: Theory and Applications; Thyagrajan
- 12 Introduction to Lasers; , Avadhanulu , Hemane
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Forensic Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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