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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT (IN LIEU OF MID TERM EXAMINATION)
BIO731: ADVANCED MOLECULAR BIOLOGYDear Students!
This is to inform that due to Covid-19 issue, Special assignment will be taken in lieu of Mid term Examination.
The weightage of special assignment will be 15%.
Special assignment will open on June 27, 2020 and due date for assignment submission will be July 06, 2020.
Note: Submit your solution through your LMS account. Solutions submitted through email will not be acceptable.
Provide to the point answers. Any unrequired/irrelevant details will not be considered.
Any material found as copied completely from lessons or internet source will be marked as zero (other than specific chemical/scientific names)Questions
Q1. What is the chemical composition of proteins? Write about their primary, 2ndry, tertiary and quaternary structures. (2+2+2+2+2)
Q2: a.Write about the organization of genetic material in bacteria. (4)
b. What do you know about the dna damage by Psoralen and Cisplatin? (4)
c. What are the differences between short and long patch repair? (2)
Q3. What do you know about the following. (2+2+2+2+2)
a) Inchworming
b) Rho independent termination
c) Promoter escape
d) Mediator complex
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BIO731 – ADVANCED MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Assignment No. 2
Due Date: Thursday, 16th January, 2020Audio Presentation
“Please prepare audio ppts slides of your review article (that you have already submitted as Assignment No. 1) through power point”
and due date of assignment submission will be Thursday, 16th January, 2020
General instructions
• Total time of audio presentation should be 10 minutes.
• Total ten slides should be prepared.
• Each slide should be of 1 minute duration (or) total 10 slides should be of 10 minutes duration.
This assignment will be carrying 10 marks.
Ten slides and recording on each slide “audio ppts file” should be uploaded on LMS not later than due date.Instructions for audio recording through power point.
Open power point
Create “new slide”
Go to “insert” in tool bar
Go to “Audio” option in media (extreme right option in power point tool bar)
Start recording on each slideOutcomes:
This assignment will help you to develop presentation skills and strengthen you more to understand your already submitted review article. -
Review Article
BIO731 – ADVANCED MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Due Date: Thursday, 2nd January, 2020.
Instructions
• As part of your course grading, you are required to submit a review article during this semester.• This exercise is meant for to inculcate research temperament and skills by carrying out a deep study of given research topic/area relevant to this course and to find different online sources of data retrieval.
• Write a review article on the following topic.Assignment Topic:
DNA Damage from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, with methods to prevent, reverse or cure that damage
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) are DNA-damaging agents and can cause several types of cancers. Once caused, it is hard to reverse any mutations created by carcinogenic agents. However, different preventive medicines, healthy diet and life style are recommended for prevention. You have to address the possible types of metastatis caused by PAH, the way PAH is contributing to increase in pollution and formation of smog in populated cities/suburbs and what preventive methods should be essentially used to avoid the harmful effects of these agents. You should also address some particular medications, traditional or scientific… that are usually recommended.
Following are the details of academic research paper/review paper: requirements, deadlines and marks.
For any question please contact [email protected]
Review Article Requirements:
Following are the requirements for the review article:
a) Paper Length
Your article should have substantial material and not less than 6 pages and minimum 15 research article should be reviewed. The purpose of review article is to gather and consolidate information in one article rather than to read all 15 research papers on this topic.
b) Quality of Writing
The clarity and style of expression, the degree to which your paper obeys the rules to
formal academic grammar, punctuation, spelling, formatting details like paragraph indentation and location of page breaks, are part of quality of writing. Write and edit your review carefully for good organization, clear language with good spelling, punctuation, etc.c) Format
Review article must have these sections:
Abstract, Introduction, Related work, discussion, conclusion and References. You must have to follow format (especially of writing references in the text and at the end of paper under the title of ‘References’) as described with the format named “Vancouver”, that is, the font size and type as it is written, Times New Roman, 12.No review article will be accepted without mentioned format.
d) References
You must have to study published research papers (minimum 15). The references of published research papers and books are allowed. Any unauthorized materials’ references will not be acceptable.The format is also given for your convenience “Vancouver”
Meydani SN, Leka LS, Fine BC, Dallal GE, Keusch GT, Singh MF, et al. Vitamin E and Respiratory Tract Iinfections in Elderly Nursing Home Residents: a Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2004 Aug 18;292(7):828-36.
*Use of reference manager (e.g EndNote) is highly appreciated
You can access Research Papers on your VULMS account using link [HEC Digital Library], Google Scholar and other online free research paper repositories (Some Journals of Genetics: Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Virus gene, Virology Journal, Journal of Genetics & Genomics, Genome Biology & Evolution Journal, Journal of Genomics, etc.).
Submission and Deadlines
Students are required to finalize and submit their review article by due date.As the academic research paper carries 15% of the total course grade, therefore it must contain implementation results of the proposed research idea. Similarly, in case of a review paper the “Discussion” section must contain student’s comments/conclusions and future research agenda regarding the domain being reviewed.
Warning: Write in your own words, do not copy-paste. Plagiarism is not acceptable. In case plagiarism is found, you will be awarded ZERO marks. No excuse will be accepted in this regard. For further understanding about plagiarism, please follow the links:
Little Book of Plagiarism
HEC Policy about plagiarism.For further information and guidelines on writing a research paper, please follow the link: Guidelines and Requirements for Writing a Research Paper
BIO731 Assignment 1 Solution and Discussion
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Review Article
BIO731 – ADVANCED MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Due Date: Thursday, 2nd January, 2020.
Instructions
• As part of your course grading, you are required to submit a review article during this semester.• This exercise is meant for to inculcate research temperament and skills by carrying out a deep study of given research topic/area relevant to this course and to find different online sources of data retrieval.
• Write a review article on the following topic.Assignment Topic:
DNA Damage from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, with methods to prevent, reverse or cure that damage
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) are DNA-damaging agents and can cause several types of cancers. Once caused, it is hard to reverse any mutations created by carcinogenic agents. However, different preventive medicines, healthy diet and life style are recommended for prevention. You have to address the possible types of metastatis caused by PAH, the way PAH is contributing to increase in pollution and formation of smog in populated cities/suburbs and what preventive methods should be essentially used to avoid the harmful effects of these agents. You should also address some particular medications, traditional or scientific… that are usually recommended.
Following are the details of academic research paper/review paper: requirements, deadlines and marks.
For any question please contact [email protected]
Review Article Requirements:
Following are the requirements for the review article:
a) Paper Length
Your article should have substantial material and not less than 6 pages and minimum 15 research article should be reviewed. The purpose of review article is to gather and consolidate information in one article rather than to read all 15 research papers on this topic.
b) Quality of Writing
The clarity and style of expression, the degree to which your paper obeys the rules to
formal academic grammar, punctuation, spelling, formatting details like paragraph indentation and location of page breaks, are part of quality of writing. Write and edit your review carefully for good organization, clear language with good spelling, punctuation, etc.c) Format
Review article must have these sections:
Abstract, Introduction, Related work, discussion, conclusion and References. You must have to follow format (especially of writing references in the text and at the end of paper under the title of ‘References’) as described with the format named “Vancouver”, that is, the font size and type as it is written, Times New Roman, 12.No review article will be accepted without mentioned format.
d) References
You must have to study published research papers (minimum 15). The references of published research papers and books are allowed. Any unauthorized materials’ references will not be acceptable.The format is also given for your convenience “Vancouver”
Meydani SN, Leka LS, Fine BC, Dallal GE, Keusch GT, Singh MF, et al. Vitamin E and Respiratory Tract Iinfections in Elderly Nursing Home Residents: a Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2004 Aug 18;292(7):828-36.
*Use of reference manager (e.g EndNote) is highly appreciated
You can access Research Papers on your VULMS account using link [HEC Digital Library], Google Scholar and other online free research paper repositories (Some Journals of Genetics: Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Virus gene, Virology Journal, Journal of Genetics & Genomics, Genome Biology & Evolution Journal, Journal of Genomics, etc.).
Submission and Deadlines
Students are required to finalize and submit their review article by due date.As the academic research paper carries 15% of the total course grade, therefore it must contain implementation results of the proposed research idea. Similarly, in case of a review paper the “Discussion” section must contain student’s comments/conclusions and future research agenda regarding the domain being reviewed.
Warning: Write in your own words, do not copy-paste. Plagiarism is not acceptable. In case plagiarism is found, you will be awarded ZERO marks. No excuse will be accepted in this regard. For further understanding about plagiarism, please follow the links:
Little Book of Plagiarism
HEC Policy about plagiarism.For further information and guidelines on writing a research paper, please follow the link: Guidelines and Requirements for Writing a Research Paper
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