The entrance exam for St. Xavier’s College Kolkata M.Sc Microbiology will be for 50 marks only. There will be 20 MCQs and 1 Analytical long type question. The total time duration is 1 hr 30 mins for the exams.

The syllabus for St. Xavier’s College Kolkata M.Sc Microbiology entrance exam is as follows:

• Introductory Microbiology - Cell Biology and Genetics-microbial growth and nutrition, bacterial Morphology and staining, Control of microbes (antibiotics), Eukaryotic microbes-algae, Fungi, Protozoa, Plasma membrane, and other eukaryotic subcellular organelle structure and function
• Medical, Industrial, Food and Agricultural Microbiology - Common microbial diseases and toxins, Normal microflora of human beings, Bacterial pathogenicity, Basic immunology, Antigen-Antibody Interaction, Monoclonal Antibody, Vaccine and Vaccination, Virology, Lytic cycle of T odd and even bacteriophages and Lysogenic Cycle of lambda phage, oncogenic and animal virus
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Stereochemistry, Biological Application of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics, Bioanalytical techniques viz. HPLC, TLC, gel electrophoresis, Biochemistry of Biomolecules like nucleic acid, amino acid, and protein, lipid, carbohydrate, vitamins, enzymology, bioenergetics, microbial metabolism, Prokaryotic and eukaryotic replication, transcription and translation,

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