A Textbook Of Biotechnology

The book ?A Textbook of Biotechnology? has been designed for all the undergraduate B.E., B.Tech. and B.Sc. students. The book includes 20 chapters and the various topics are written illustratively in very simple way. This book focuses on cell structures and viruses, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, cell division, food and beverage, etc. The matter has been presented in a structured manner and in an easy to understand, which can be grasped easily by students of various disciplines. A greater stress has been laid on pictorial representation in the text. There has been a conscious attempt to make proper flow of language and present the contents in simple and lucid manner. This book is very useful for the students of biotechnology and others.
Table Of Contents :
1.    Introduction to Cell Structure and Viruses
2.    Carbohydrates
3.    Proteins
4.    Lipids
5.    Cell Division
6.    Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
7.    Nucleic Acids
8.    Protein Synthesis
9.    Genetic Code
10.  Mutations
11.  Regulation of Gene Expression
12.  Genetic Engineering
13.  Nature and Scope of Biotechnology
14.  Cell Culture
15.  Food and Beverage Biotechnology
16.  Enzyme Technology
17.  Environmental Biotechnology
18.  Biological Fuel Generation
19.  Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
20.  Biotechnology and Medicine
Index
Appendix
About Author :
Dr. Rashmi Tyagi is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Technology & Management, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana. She has been teaching Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences to Bachelor of Engineering students for five years. Formerly, she worked as researcher and teacher for more than ten years in the Division of Microbiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, and got various fellowships (NET, RA, SRA) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, as well as cleared the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). Her areas of specialization are cyanobacterial biofertilizer and influence of UV-B radiation upon them. She has published/presented several research papers and articles in various reputed national and international journals and conferences.UBI-9350