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Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

BT5: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology · GATE BT

PLANT.SECONDARY_METAB Plant Sciences

Terpenes, phenolics, alkaloids and their biosynthetic origins, ecological roles and commercial uses.

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Plants (totipotency, organogenesis, regeneration, growth regulators and elicitors, tissue and cell suspension culture, secondary metabolites, hairy root culture, artificial seeds, somaclonal variation, protoplast fusion, transgenic plants, selection markers and reporter genes, plastid transformation)

  • PLANT.SECONDARY_METAB
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animals (culture media and growth conditions, preservation, anchorage-dependent and independent culture, growth kinetics, micro and macro-carrier culture, hybridoma technology, stem cells, animal cloning, transgenic and knock-out and knock-in animals)

  • ANIMAL_BIOTECH
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microbes (biomass and primary and secondary metabolites - biofuels, bioplastics, industrial enzymes, antibiotics

  • PLANT.SECONDARY_METAB