Microbial Genetics (GATE XL) — Study Resources & PYQs
Types of mutation; UV and chemical mutagens; Selection of mutants; Ames test for mutagenesis; Bacterial genetic system: transformation, conjugation, transduction, recombination, plasmids, transposons; DNA repair; Regulation of gene expression: repression and induction; Operon model; Bacterial genome with special reference to E.coli; Phage λ and its life cycle; RNA ; Mutation in virus genomes, virus recombination and reassortment; Basic concept of microbial genomics; Cell cycle and cell division in lower eukaryotes.