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Environmental impact of biotechnology; Use of genetically modified organisms (GMO); earosols; insecticides; etc; Social; ethical and legal considerations; Regulation of biotechnology; Issues in biosafety; Biosafety regulations

Importance of biogeography; Distribution of species; genera and families: Endemic species and genera; Pan tropical species and genera; Discontinuous species and genera; Factors of distribution (climatic; edaphic; geographic and dispersal effects); Theory of tolerance; Floristic regions of the world; Vegetation mapping

Principles and concept of biogeography. Vegetation types; factors affecting flora and fauna distribution at various scales. The concept of the ecosystem. The structure and functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Vegetation changes through time: adoption, cyclical, fluctuations, succession and climax. Nutrient cycling, the role of man in ecosystem modification, soil studies and many others.

Scripting; Use of computer programmes; Programme installation and navigation; Data mining; Statistical analysis; Primer design; Sequence analysis; BLAST; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein alignment

Study of Forensics: Principles and practice of identification; Pattern matching and recognition; Computer Forensics: pattern recognition; data mining; machine learning algorithms; and visualization; Sequence alignment; applications to biological sciences - DNA; gene finding; genome assembly; drug design; drug discovery; protein structure alignment; protein structure prediction; prediction of gene expression and protein-protein interactions; genome-wide association studies and the modelling of evolution

Scripting; use of computer programme; installation of programs and navigation; Sequence BLASTING; gene sequence alignment; primer design; Phylogenetic analysis; protein alignment; Data mining

Scripting; Use of computer programmes; Programme installation and navigation; Data mining; Statistical analysis; Primer design; Sequence analysis; BLAST; Phylogenetic analysis; Protein alignment

Sequence retrieval and analysis; bioalgorithms; biological databases and their search; sequence alignment and construction of phylogenetic trees; Gene predictions; RNA and protein structure prediction; Use of bioinformatics tools in biotechnology biopharma

Review of cells and cell membranes; transport of drugs across membranes; ionization of drug and other factors affected drug movement in the body; Methods of drugs movement across cell membranes; Principles of drug absorption; distribution; biotransformation and excretion