BSc Forensic Science Biological Science IV 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 IV
Module I: Molecular genetics –I
- Chromosome: structure and types. Chromosomal organization:
- histone octamer, nucleosome solenoid, etc. Heterochromatin and euchromatin region, repetitive and non-repetitive DNA
- sequences.
- C-value, C-value paradox and Cot-curve. Chromosomal mapping and karyotyping.
- DNA replication in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
Module II: Molecular genetics –II
- Transcription, Genetic code and translation.
- Chromosomal mutations (Causes, types of
- mutation)
- Mutagens, induced mutagenesis, mutation rate, genetic load
- Gene mutation- Transition, transversion, Frameshift, Point mutation
Module III: Molecular techniques
- Sources of DNA evidence
- Extraction of DNA (Conventional and advanced method of DNA extraction)-basic principles, methods of extraction, DNA
- amplification- PCR, blotting methods, DNA electrophoresis,
- DNA quantification.
- Databanks (Human Genome Project)
Module IV: DNA profiling
- History of DNA fingerprinting
- Polymorphism in DNA system – DNA markers VNTRs, SNP,
- Autosomal – STR, Y-STR, Mitochondrial DNA, DNA databases, Techniques of analysis: PCR, Reverse transcriptase PCR, Real-
- Time PCR, RFLP, RAPD.
- Forensic Significance of DNA Profiling: - Application in disputed paternity cases, child swapping, Missing person’s identity –
- immigration, veterinary & wildlife and Agriculture cases
Text books and Additional References
- 1 Microbiology: an introduction: Tortora, Funke, Case
- 2 Textbook of microbiology: Ananthanarayan and Pannikar
- 3 Microbiology: Black
- 4 Clinical microbiology and infectious diseases: John Spicer
- 5 Perscott’s microbiology: Willey, Sherwood and Woolverton
- 6 Microbiology: Pelczar, Chan and Krieg
- 7 Microbiological applications: laboratory manual in general microbiology: Brown and Smith
- 8 Cellular and molecular immunology: Abbas, Lichtman and Pillai
- 9 Kuby immunology: Goldsby, Kindt, Osborne
- 10 Roitt’s essential immunology: Delvis, Martin, Burton and Roitt
- 11 An introduction to immunology: C. V. Rao
- 12 Fundamental immunology: William Paul
- 13 Understanding immunology: Peter Wood
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Forensic Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2023-24. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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