BSc Forensic Science Biological Science V 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 V
Module I: Forensic Serology:
- Body fluids- Presumptive and confirmatory detection and forensic significance of following body fluids: Blood, semen, saliva, sweat, and Urine
- Analysis of Amniotic fluid, synovial fluid, aqueous humor, menstrual blood, Faecal matter, tear, pus, vomit, bone marrow.
- Enzymatic markers
Module II: Serological Techniques
- Antigen-antibody reactions (primary, secondary)
- Serological techniques: primary binding assays, ELISA, Western Blotting, Hemagglutination, complement
- fixation Immunochromatography, Immunodiffusion assays (Ouchterlony, Single radial immune diffusion); Immunoelectrophoretic assays (Rocket and
- counter-current assay) and Radio immune assay.
Module III: Instrumentation
- Separation techniques based on molecular size (dialysis,
- ultrafiltration, density gradient centrifugation, molecular
- exclusion chromatography).
- Solubility differences (isoelectric precipitation, solvent fractionation, salting-in and salting out). Electric charge (electrophoresis, ion- exchangechromatography), ligand specificity (affinity chromatography). Spectrophotometry: Principle and application of spectrophotometer.
Module IV: Anthropological & Odontological evidences
- Sample collection: Biological evidence at crime scenes, evidence collection and preservation, collection of reference DNA samples, storage and sample characterization, sample storage and transport, contamination concerns
- Identification of skeletal remains from other evidence, Identification of fragmented remains, Identification of human and non-human remains. Determination of sex & age from skeletal remains.
- History of forensic Dentistry, Morphology and identification of the teeth type, Chronology of dentition, Dental charting
- systems, Age estimation in adults
- Forensic palynology Dallas Mildenhall, Patricia Wiltshire, Vaughn
- Elsevier, 2006
- Forensic palynology: an in-depth look at its indispensable value National University, San Diego, 2002
Text books and Additional References
- 1 Practical Crime Scene Analysis & Reconstruction – Roos M. Gardner & Tom Bevel
- 2 Death Scene Investigation – Scott A. Wagner
- 3 Forensic Science in criminal investigation and trials – B.R. Sharma
- 4 Forensic Science in Crime Investigation – Dr. Mrs. Rukmani Krishnamurthy
- 5 Forensic Science – An introduction to scientific and investigative techniques – Stuart H. James Jon J. Nordby
- 6 Forensic Medicine – P.V. Guharaj& M. R. Chandran
- 7 Bryant, V.M. Jr, Mildenhall, D.C. and Jones, J.G., Forensic Polynology in the United States of America Polynology. 1990, 14.PP.193-208
- 8 Faegri, K. Iverson, J. and Krzywinski, K. Textbook of Pollen Analysic 4th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York 1989.
- 9 Microbial forensics By Roger Breeze, Bruce Budowle, Steven E. Schutzer. Elsevier Academic Press
- 10 The Forensic Laboratory Handbook Procedures and Practice By Ashraf Mozayani, Carla Noziglia. 2nd edition. 2011. Human Press.
- 11 Forensic Science in Wildlife Investigations. Adrian Linacre Taylor and Francis, 2009
- 12 The Wildlife Detectives: How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature By Donna M. Jackson, Wendy Shattil, Bob RozinskiUniversalAthenaeum (Denver, CO, U.S.A.)
- 13 Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations Jason H. Byrd, James L. Castner Taylor and Francis, 2009
- 14 Forensic entomology: an introduction By Dorothy E. Gennard Wiley.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Forensic Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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