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OCTOBER 19 – 2012        FACT FILES – HIGH YIELD NAMES, DEFINITIONS, POINTS, EXAMPLES

1. FACT FILE – BACTERIAL AND VIRAL DISEASES
2. FACT FILE – CIRCULATION
3. FACT FILE – ECOLOGY
4. FACT FILE – EXCRETION
5. FACT FILE – GENERAL
6. FACT FILE – NERVOUS SYSTEM
7. FACT FILE – REPRODUCTION
8. FACT FILE- BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
9. FACT FILE- BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
10. FACT FILE- CLASSICAL GENETICS
11. FACT FILE- FISHES
12. FACT FILE- GASTRO INTESTINAL HORMONES
13. FACT FILE HUMAN DISEASES
14. FACT FILE- LOCOMOTION

OCTOBER 17,2012                                                                  MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

1. ACTIVE TRANSPORT BY PUMPS- ABC TRANSPORTER, SYMPORTS
2. AMINOACETYLATION OF t-RNA
3. ATTENUATION
4. CANADA BALSAM- MOUNTANT
5. CHAPERONES
6. CHROMOSOME SCAFFOLD
7. DNA REPAIR MECHANISM
8. DNA REPLICATION MACHINERY
9. DPX and BPS Synthetic Resin Mountants
10. EUKARYPTIC RNA PROCESSING
11. FRAMESHIFT MUTATION
12. HOLLIDAY JUNCTION
13. INTRONS
14. MEMBRANE POTENTIAL
15. MINI SATELLITE
16. MITOCHONDRIAL GENETIC CODE
17. MOLECULAR CHANGES IN CANCER CELLS
18. MOLECULES OF EXTRACELLULAR SIGNALING
19. N-FORMYL METHIONINE
20. POLYSOMES
21. PROMOTOR
22. REPRESSIBLE SYSTEM- trp OPERON
23. RETROTRANSPOSONES
24. RIBOZYMES
25. RNA DEPENDENT SYNTHESIS OF DNA AND RNA
26. SECOND MESSENGER
27. SELFISH DNA
28. SHINE– DALGARNO SEQUENCE
29. t- RNA STRUCTURE

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

ENDOCRINOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

1. ADH
2. ALDOSTERONE
3. CONN’S SYNDROME
4. CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE
   
5. FIBROBLAST
6. FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE
7. GLUCOCORTICOIDS
8. GONADOTROPES
9. HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR
10. IODIDE PUMP
11. ISLETS OF LANGERHANS
12. KETOSIS
13. LUMONE
14. NERVE GROWTH FACTOR
15. NEUROPEPTIDE
16. ONCOGENES
17. OSTEOPOROSIS
18. PROSTAGLANDINS
19. RADIO ISOTOPE
20. RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY
21. SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

September 19, 2012

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

1. BETA CATENIN
2. BETA PLEATED STRUCTURE
3. CENTRAL DOGMA
4. CHAPERONS
5. DNA DAMAGE
6. DNA POLYMERASE
7. DNA REPAIR
8. ENZYMES IN DNA
9. EUKARYOTIC RNA PROCESSING
10. INITIATOR
11. MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME
12. POL GAMMA
13. PROKARYOTIC DNA POLYMERASE
14. Q BANDING
15. REPRESSOR
16. RETROVIRUS GENOME
17. TATA BINDING PROTEIN

September 18, 2012

IMMUNOLOGY

1. ACTIVE IMMUNITY
2. ACTOANTIGEN
3. ADJUVANT
4. ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK
5. AUTOIMMUNITY
6. CELLS AND ORGANS OF IMMUNE SYSTEM
7. CELLS OF IMMUNE SYSTEM
8. HIGH YIELD HINTS – IMMUNOLOGY
9. IDIOTYPE
10. IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE DRUGS
11. ISOTYPE AND ALLOTYPE
12. MACROPHAGES
13. MAST CELLS
14. PASSIVE IMMUNITY

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

1. BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER
2. BRAIN CHEMICAL MESSENGERS
3. CEREBRAL CORTEX
4. CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
5. CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE
6. COLOUR BLINDNESS
7. CT SCAN AND MRI SCAN
8. DISEASES OF BRAIN
9. DISORDERS OF MEMORY
10. EEG
11. EFFECT OF DRUGS ON NEUROTRANSMISSION
12. ELECTRO ENCEPHALOGRAPHY
13. F MRI
14. FUNCTIONAL MRI
15. HIPPOCAMPUS
16. HYPOTHALAMIC INTEGRATION
17. HYPOTHALAMUS
18. LIGHT AND VISION
19. LIMBIC SYSTEM
20. MEMORY CONSOLIDATION
21. MEMORY
22. MENINGES
23. NEUROTRANSMITTERS
24. PARADOXICAL SLEEP
25. PHYSIOLOGY OF VISION
26. POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY
27. PSYCHO ACTIVE DRUGS
28. RAPHE NUCLEUS
29. REFLEX
30. REM SLEEP
31. RETROGRADE AMNITIA
32. SENSE OF HEARING
33. SENSE OF PAIN
34. SENSE OF SMELL
35. SENSE OF TASTE
36. SENSE OF VISION
37. SEROTONIN
38. SLEEP PHYSIOLOGY
39. SLOW WAVE SLEEP
40. THALAMUS

 Updates  

1. Economic Zoology – Apiculture, Sericulture, Lac culture, Agricultural Entomology, Poulty Science, Dairy Science
2. All in One – High yield Termsin Biology – 40 pages
3. General Informatics
4. Bioinformatics
5. Biotechnology and Tissue culture
6. Biochemical and Clinical techniques
7. Wild life and Biodiversity conservation
8. TEETH AND DENTITION
9. TONGUE AND SALIVARY GLANDS
10. DIGESTIVE GLANDS
11. ALIMENTARY CANAL
12. VITAMINS
13. CARBOHYDRATES
14. PROTEINS
15. LIPIDS
16. MOLECULAR NATURE OF DNA
17. FORMS OF DNA
18. ENZYMES OF DNA REPLICATION

23.4.2012

1. CT Scan and MRI Scan
2. Ethology – High Yield Terms
3. Physiology – High Yield Terms
4. Toxicology

29.4.2012

1. ECG
2. ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
3. BLOOD CLOTTING
4. HEAMOPHILIA
5. PACE MAKER
6. THROMBOSIS AND EMBOLISM
7. ANTICOAGULANTS
8. PULSE AND BLOOD PRESSURE
9. SENSE OF VISION
10. SENSE OF HEARING

11.5.2012  – Neurophysiology

1. CEREBRAL CORTEX
2. MENINGES
3. CEREBRO SPINAL FLUID
4. BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER
5. THALAMUS
6. HYPOTHALAMUS
7. LIMBIC SYSTEM
8. HIPPOCAMPUS
9. MEMORY
10. MEMORY CONSOLIDATION
11. DISORDERS OF MEMORY
12. SLOW WAVE SLEEP
13. REM SLEEP
14. PARADOXICAL SLEEP
15. REFLEX
16. EEG
17. DISEASES OF BRAIN
18. RETROGRADE AMNETIA

13.5.2012 – SENSE ORGANS

1. PHYSIOLOGY OF VISION
2. SENSE OF HEARING
3. SENSE OF PAIN
4. SENSE OF SMELL
5. SENSE OF TASTE
6. LIGHT AND VISION
7. COLOUR BLINDNESS

APPLICATION BIOLOGY – MCQ 60 Nos with Key

1. HUMAN POPULATION AND HEALTH – MCQ 35 Nos with Key
2. ANIMAL NUTRITION 1- MCQ 25 Nos. with Key
3. ANIMAL NUTRITION 2 MCQ 25 Nos with Key
4. ANIMAL NUTRITION 3 MCQ 25 Nos with Key
5. RESPIRATION 1 MCQ 12 Nos with Key
6. REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY 1 MCQ 50 Nos with Key
7. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY MCQ 50 Nos with Key
8. MODEL TEST 1 MCQ 120 Nos with Key
9. MODEL TEST 2 MCQ 68 Nos with Key

24 Hour Chick Embryo

1. 32 Hour Chick Embryo
2. Acrosome Reaction
3. Adeno Virus
4. Adjuvant
5. Alturism
6. ASPIRIN
7. Autoantigen
8. Autoimmunity
9. Avian Extra Embryonic Membranes
10. BEST
11. Beta pleated structure
12. BIODIVERSITY-ONE WORD ANSWERS
13. BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE-ONE WORD ANSWERS
14. Brain Chemical Messengers

1. Central Dogma
2. Complement System
3. Cortical Reaction
4. DNA CHIPS
5. DNA Damage
6. DNA Polymerase
7. DNA Repair mechanism
8. Dopamine
9. Electromagnetic Radiation
10. Enzyme Inhibition
11. Eukaryotic RNA Processing
12. Gene Frequency
13. Gene Pool
14. Gene Therapy
15. Genomic Equivalence
16. Green Energy

1. HLA System
2. Human Cytome Project
3. Human Microbiome Project
4. Human Variome Project
5. Idiotype
6. Immunosuppressive Drug
7. Initiator
8. Innate Release Mechanism
9. Isoelectric Point
10. Isotype and AlloType

1. Mitochondrial Genome
2. Pol Gamma
3. Prokaryotic DNA Polymerase
4. Raphe Nucleus
5. Rec A Protein
6. REM Sleep
7. Repressor
8. Retrovirus Genome

1. Serotonin
2. Sleep Physiology
3. SOS Response
4. Sperm Capacitation
5. TATA Binding Protein
6. Tissue Rejection
7. Immunology Directory of Definitions

1. Centrifuge
2. Colorimeter
3. pH Meter
4. Spectrophotometer
5. Spectrophotometry

1. Bottle Neck Phenomenon
2. Deviations of Hardy-Weniberg equilibrium
3. Founder Effect
4. Gene Pool
5. Genetic Drift
6. Psychoactive drugs
7. Neurotransmitters
8. Effect of Drugs on Neurotransmission

1. Clumped Distribution
   
2. Human Diseases and Causative Agent
   
3. Random Distribution

1. Facts File 1
2. Facts File 2
3. Facts File 3
4. Facts File 4
5. Facts File 5

1. Fact File 6
2. Fact File 7
   
3. Fact File 8
4. Fact File 9
5. Fact File 10
6. Facts File 11 Nature and Scope of Biology
7. Facts File 12 Gene Mapping
8. Fact File 13 Environment
9. Fact File 14 Cell Biology
10. Facts File 15 Characters of Plant Groups

ZERO HOUR BRAIN BRUSHING

Module wise Notes

1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

1. Beta – Catenin
2. HMP Shunt
3. ISOELECTRIC POINT
4. Peptide Bonding
5. pka value
6. PROTEIN KINASE A
7. Sulfoxidation
8.  Tonicity
9. wnt-pathway1
10. High Yield Hints- ATP in Glycolysis and Kreb’s Cycle
11. High Yield Hints- Enzyme Inhibion
12. High Yield Hints- Enzymes in DNA

2. Cellular Organization

1. Chromosome Puffs
2. CYCLIC AMP
3. POLYTENE CHROMOSOME
4. hiv-infection
5. pinopodes
6. q-banding1
7. High Yield Hints- Cell Biology

3. Fundamental Processes

1. Central dogma of molecular biology
2. CHAPERONS
3. CONTIG
4. DNA POLYMERASE
5. EUKARYOTIC RNA PROCESSING
6. Initiatior
7. LINEs
8. Pair-Rule Gene
9. POST TRANSCRIPTIONAL MODIFICATIONS
10. REPRESSIBLE SYSTEM
11. REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION
12. Ribozyme
13. Sigma factor
14. SINEs
15. TATA box
16. The Pribnow box
17. TRANSCRIPTION
18. TATA box
19. Biology Capsule 1- DNA Molecular Structure
20. Biology Capsule 2- Genetic Code and Protein Synthesis
21. Biology Capsule 3- DNA Structure and Sequences

4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

1. Cell signaling
2. Cell surface Receptors
3. Endocrine Disruptors
4. METAPLASIA
5. PYROGENS
6. RECEPTOR STRUCTURE
7. SECOND MESSENGER

5. Developmental Biology

1. Assisted Reproductive Technology
2. BEST
3. BLAST
4. CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS-GASRTULATION
5. CHORDIN
6. CRYOPRESERVATION
7. DECIDUALIZATION
8. Embryology of Frog
9. Embryology of Sea urchin
10. embryology of the chick
11. Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization
12. Gastrulation
13. GIFT
14. GIFT PROCEDURE
15. human-cloning2
16. INSITU HYBRIDIZATION
17. MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX
18. nidation
19. Nieuwkoop Center
20. NOGGIN
21. PHYSICAL GENE MAPPING
22. PINOPODES
23. SPEMANN – MANGOLD EXPERIMENT
24. TISSUE GRAFTING
25. ZIFT
26. ZIFT PROCEDURE
27. High Yield Hints – Reproduction
28. Development of Gonads

6. System Physiology – Plant

1. BOTANY EXCEL 1
2. BOTANY EXCEL 2- Genetics
3. BOTANY EXCEL 3 – Plant Embryology
4. BOTANY EXCEL 4 – Fruits
5. BOTANY EXCEL 5 – Taxonomy and Systematics
6. BOTANY EXCEL 6 – Biomolecules
7. High Yield Hints – Inflorescence
8. High Yield Hints- Botany General
9. High Yield Hints- Crops
10. High Yield Hints- Insectivorous Plants
11. High Yield Hints- Plant Kingdom
12. High Yield Hints- Tools and Techniques 1- Microscopy
13. High Yield Hints- Tools and Techniques -Tissue Culture
14. High Yield Hints-Flowering
15. High Yield Hints-Photomorphogenesis and Flowering

7. System Physiology – Animal

1. abnormal-constituents-of-urine
2. amino-acids-essential-and-non-essential
3. Blood Pigments
4. Brain Waves
5. Cells of Immune System
6. digestive-glands
7. digestive-system-of-man
8. EPITOPES AND HAPTENS
9. gastrointestinal-hormones
10. HUMAN HEART
11. malnutrition
12. MALNUTRITION DISEASES
13. NERVOUS SYSTEM-ONE WORD ANSWERS
14. Neurotransmission-hints
15. nutrition-and-nutritional-factors
16. PASCINIAN CORPUSCLES
17. prolactin
18. respiration-in-animals
19. RESPIRATORY DISORDERS-ONE WORD ANSWERS
20. VIRAL DISEASES
21. VITAMINS-ONE WORD ANSWERS
22. High Yield Hints- Excretion
23. High Yield Hints- Excretion 2
24. High Yield Hints- Gastrointestinal Hormones
25. High Yield Hints- Haematology
26. High Yield Hints- Heart
27. High Yield Hints- HIV Infection
28. High Yield Hints- Human Diseases 1
29. High Yield Hints- Immunity
30. High Yield Hints -Locomotion and Movement
31. High Yield Hints- Nervous System
32. High Yield Hints-Brain and Sense Organs
33. High Yield Hints-Endocrine Glands
34. High Yield Hints-Excretion and Osmoregulation

8. Inheritance Biology

1. Classical Genetics
2. Molecular Genetics
3. Genetics Capsule 1
4. Bacteriorhodopsin
5. Gap Gene
6. HOMEOTIC GENES
7. Lamp brush chromosomes
8. MITOCHONDIAL GENETICS
9. MOLECULAR GENETICS
10. RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE
11. RETROTRANSPOSONES
12. GENETICS
13. High Yield Hints- Classical Genetics
14. High Yield Hints- Molecular Genetics

9. Diversity of Life forms 

1. Halobacterium salinarium
2. high-yield-facts-from-animal-kingdom
3. paramecium
4. Fishes
5. High Yield Hints- Animal Kingdom
6. High Yield Hints- Non Chordata and Chordata

10. Ecological Principles

1. COMPETITION
2. competition-exclusion-principle
3. High Yield Hints- Biodiversity and Conservation
4. High Yield Hints- Biological Magnification
5. High Yield Hints- Ecology
6. High Yield Hints-Ecology and Environment

11. Evolution and Behaviour

1. alturism
2. GENE FREQUENCY
3. GENE POOL
4. GENETIC POLYMORPHISM
5. happy-messengers
6. high-yield-facts-from-evolution
7. high-yield-facts-from-origin-of-life
8. innate-releasing-mechanism
9. physiological-and-biochemical-basis-of-learning
10. Population Genetics
11. Speciation
12. species-difference-in-behaviour
13. High Yield Hints- Orgin of Life
14. Evolution – Hints

12. Applied Biology

1. Chromosome Banding
2. DNA CHIPS
3. DNA Fingerprinting
4. GenBank
5. HIV INFECTION
6. HUMAN CLONING
7. Human Cytome project
8. MOLECULAR CLONING
9. MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY PRODUCTION
10. Polyclonal antibodies
11. viral-diseases
12. Discovery of Recombinant DNA
13. Genetic Engineering
14. High Yield Hints- Application Biology
15. High Yield Hints- Biology in Human Welfare
16. High Yield Hints- Biomedical Technology
17. High Yield Hints- Domestication of Animals
18. High Yield Hints- Nanotechnology
19. High Yield Hints- Pesticides
20. High Yield Hints- Transgenetc Organisms
21. Transgenesis

13. Methods in Biology

1. camera-lucida
2. CAT
3. computed-axial-tomography
4. computed-tomography
5. confocal-microscopy
6. diagnostic-techniques-and-biotechnology-of-therapeutics
7. digital-microscopy
8. dpx-and-bps-synthetic-resin-mountants
9. electrocardiograph
10. electroencephalography
11. electron-microscopy
12. electroporation
13. environmental-scanning-electron-microscope
14. fluorescence-microscopy
15. f-MRI
16. light-microscopy
17. light-microscopy-facts
18. Magnetic resonance imaging
19. MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS
20. micrometry
21. Microscopy
22. mri-scan
23. negative-staining-in-electron-microscopy
24. paper-chromatography
25. Patch Clamp Technique
26. PET
27. PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY.
28. plasmon1
29. positron-emission-tomography
30. preparation-of-fixatives
31. preparation-of-solutions-normal-solutions
32. preparation-of-solutions-percent-solution
33. Q Banding
34. ringer-solutions
35. sample-preparation-in-electron-microscopy
36. SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
37. Single Unit Recording
38. southern-blotting
39. tonometry-1
40. TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
41. ultrasound-imaging

Scientific Concepts and Applications

1. Branches of Biology
2. High Yield Hints- Biology in Human Welfare
3. Nature and Scope of Biology
4. Science of Exceptions

1. COMPUTATIONAL GENE
2. Peptide computing
3. Affective computing
4. Thermal Imaging
5. Endoscopy
6. Charge Coupled Device
7. Helicobacter pylori
8. Functional magnetic Resonance
9. Mass Spectrometry

High Yield Terms

1. high-yield-terms-in-biology
2. molecular-cloning
3. Active Immunity
4. Anaphylactic Shock
5. Bioleaching
6. Bioremediation
7. Cell line
8. Cells and Organs of Immune System
9. Chemiosmotic Theory
10. Chromosome Walking
11. Cloning
12. Cloning Vectors
13. Cytochromes
14. DNA Fingerprinting
15. DNA Ligase
16. Electroporation
17. G – Protein Coupled Pathway
18. Gram Staining
19. Haemoglobin Structure
20. Hormone Action
21. Hypothalamic Integration
22. Knock out Mice
23. Lipofection
24. Macrophages
25. Mast Cells
26. Mesosomes
27. Ninhydrin reaction
28. Passive Immunity
29. Polymorphic DNA
30. Prions
31. Protein Structure
32. RAPD
33. Respiratory Pigments
34. Restriction Endonucleases
35. Retrovirus
36. RFLP
37. Types of Immunity
38. Electromagnetic Spectrum
39. Electromagnetic Spectrum
40. Physiology of Night Vision
41. Physiology of Vision in Human beings
42. Role of Tapetum Lucidum
43. Vision in Animal Kingdom
44. Why Nocturnal Animals Have l

1. cd-rom-how-it-work1
2. cell-phone-misuse1
3. compact-disc
4. computer
5. computer-vision-syndrome
6. cyber-radiation
7. dna-computing-1
8. e-m-radiation
9. how-mobile-phone-works
10. image-format1
11. internet-and-mobile-phone-safety
12. liquid-crystal-display-1
13. malware
14. memory-devices
15. micro-sd-tf-card
16. mobile-phone-call
17. molecular-switch
18. multi-media-card
19. online-off-line-ups
20. pixel
21. sd-card
22. smart-card
23. touch-screen-technology
24. usb1
25. Universal Serial Bus
26. Ethernet Cable
27. Router
28. Compact Disc Technology

1. BIOCOMPUTING
2. bioinformatics
3. bioinformatics-data-bases
4. Biological databases
5. clustalw2-and-clustal-x
6. embl
7. gen-bank
8. GENERAL INFORMATICS
9. prosite
10. Protein Database

1. BIOSTATISTICS-TERMINOLOGY
2. Correlation
3. Dose Response
4. Dose Response Curve
5. LC50
6. LD 50
7. REGRESSION ANALYSIS

1. MICROSCOPY
2. biophysical methods 2
3. ELECTRO PHYSIOLOGY
4. HORMONES