Dear Students

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Microbiology I - Three domains of life

Dear BSc First Year Botany (H) Students

Please find study material for Three domains of life at a website that explains domains of life in brief
Please find differences between prokaryotes and Eukaryotes at Prokaryotes vs Eukaryotes

Assignment 2-2018

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students
Complete following programs (both BASIC and EXCEL) and get them signed by 2nd June 2018

BASIC assignment:

• Write a program to find N! where N is an integer of user's choice. Output of every step until N is reached must be printed in a table with headings "N" and "N!".


• Write a program to find sum of squares from M to N where M and N are input by user.

EXCEL assignment:

• Pdf for Assignment: PDf with instructions for excel assignment

Further Reading: A blog with many qbasic examples
If you face any problems or you want to discuss this assignment please feel free to leave a comment.

Biodiversity hotspots

Dear MSc Second Semester Geography Students I have listed few references for Ecosystem and Ecology 3.4 (Biodiversity Hotspots)

• Refrences: Hotspots of the world
• Reference: hotspots of India
• Reference: Hotspot presentation

Ecology and Ecosystem I

Dear MSc Second Semester Geography Students

• Refrences: Notes on ecology
• Reference: Ecology interface with geography
• Further Reading: Video: Basic concepts of ecology 1
• Basic concepts of ecology 2

Introduction to computers

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Refrences: Introduction to Computers and history
• Reference: components and softwares
• Further Reading: Video: Introduction to components of computers and python programming

Bioinformatics applications

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students
I found an article that concisely describes various applications of bioinformatics, as this a common question in your exams, I am posting a link to this article link to article

Basic assignment 3

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students
So far we have seen that we can store a single value in a variable for example:
10 Let A = 10
But while programming it may be convenient to store a list of values (i.e. 10,5,15,20,25) in a single variable. This is possible in BASIC and such a list in called "array", each individual item is called an "element". So "A" is an array and its elements are A1= 10, A2 = 5, A3=15, A4= 20, A5=25. 1 in "A1" denotes position of the element in an array and is called its "index" or "subscription".
To make an array in BASIC we use DIM statement, say if we want to make an array of 10 elements and save it in variable "N" then the statement wii be
10 DIM N(10) This will create an empty array of 10 elements. To fill this array we can take the elements as input or we can use READ and DATA statements.
DATA statement saves a list of elements.
READ statements reads the list one at a time and puts it in array
Example: Program to calculate sum of squares of 10 numbers.

10 Cls
20 LET S = 0
30 FOR I = 1 to 10
40 READ X(I)
50 LET S = S + X(I)*X(I)
60 NEXT I
70 NEXT I
80 PRINT S
90 DATA 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
100 END


Your assignment:



• Write a program using array to calculate mean and variance of heights of dogs, heights are : 600 mm, 470 mm,170 mm, 430mm and 300 mm.



• Further Reading: A blog with many qbasic examples
• Open WikiBook

If you face any problems or you want to discuss this assignment please feel free to leave a comment.

Excel Assignment 4

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students Download the following excel sheet, complete the assignments given therein and send them to me.If you have any difficulties use comment option of this blog.

• Excel Sheet: download link to excel sheet

Excel Assignment 3

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students Download the following excel sheet, complete the assignments given therein and send them to me.If you have any difficulties use comment option of this blog.

• Excel Sheet: download link to excel sheet

Basic Assignment 2

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students
This assignment uses string functions to manipulate string in qbasic. Complete this assignment and send it to me by mail. In case you face any difficulties please go through the materials given for further reading. Try to think simple, write few steps and run in qb64, see if it is giving the result the you expect it to. Build the program step-wise.
The following example uses Len() function to calculate length of a string than uses a FOR-NEXT loop to extract increasing number of characters from left of the string with LEFT$() and then prints them. For your assignment you will need to use MID$() its syntax is MID$(S$,x,y) where S$ = variable to which string is assigned to, x = position at which to begin, y = number of characters to extract.
Also note that I have used GOTO statements to make the program follow a particular sequence of steps this is an example of controlling the flow of the program

10 Cls
20 Input “Enter any name ”;N$
30 NameLength = LEN(N$)
40 IF NameLength > 3 THEN GOTO 70
50 PRINT "Name is too small"
60 GOTO 110
70 FOR i = 1 TO NameLength
80 leftslice$ = LEFT$(N$, i)
90 PRINT leftslice$
100 NEXT i
110End


• Write a program to take input student's name then print it in following format.

example: Rosemerry
R
o
s
e
m
e
r
r
y


• Further Reading: A blog with many qbasic examples
• Open WikiBook

If you face any problems or you want to discuss this assignment please feel free to leave a comment.

Basic Assignment 1

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students
Complete this assignment and send it to me by mail. In case you face any difficulties please go through the materials given for further reading. Try to think simple, write few steps and run in qb64, see if it is giving the result the you expect it to. Build the program step-wise.

• Write a program to take input student's name and scores in four subjects. Calculate the average score and print Student's name and score.

We learned to use 'if-then-else' statements in class, well it works if we have two conditions, if we have more than two conditions we can use 'case' statement, here is an example
Cls
Input “Enter any numbers ”;N
Select Case N
Case <0
Print “It’s negative number ”
Case >99
Print “It’s out of range”;
Case >9
Print “It’s a double digit number”
Case >0
Print “It’s a positive number”
End Select
End

• Modify the above program to calculate students grade depending on the average score as in the following table. Use 'case' statement to get grade for the student's score. Finally print students's name average score and grade.In Following format:

Name	Average Score	Grade




Score	Grade
0-40	F
41-60	D
61-80	C
81-90	B
91-100	A



• Further Reading: A blog with many qbasic examples
• Open WikiBook

If you face any problems or you want to discuss this assignment please feel free to leave a comment.

Instrumentation

Paper VII GROUP A Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Video: Column Chromatography
• Video: Gel Electrophoresis
• Video: PAGE Gel Electrophoresis
• Video: SDS PAGE Gel Electrophoresis
• Reference Book: Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics by Primrose and Twyman, Chapters:1 link for downloading book pdf

Genetic Engineering

Paper II GROUP A: Unit II

Dear MSc First Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Video: Clonning animation
• Reference Book: Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics by Primrose and Twyman, Chapters:2,3,4 and 6 link for downloading book pdf

Gene expression Regulation in Prokaryotes

Paper II GROUP A: Unit II

Dear MSc First Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Video: Lac Operon animation
• Video: LAc operon and role of structural genes
• Reference Book: Principles of Genetics by Gardner, Simmons and Snustad, Chapter:Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes link for downloading book pdf
• Further Reading: WikiLectures: Operon concept

Chromatography I

Paper VII GROUP A: Unit I

Dear MSc Second Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Video: Thin Layer Chromatography
• Reference:link to reference pdf

Translation

Paper II GROUP A: Unit II

Dear MSc First Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Video: Translation initiation animation
• Video: Translation elongation animation
• Video: Translation termination animation
• Video: DNA to Protein
• Video: Translation: more realistic animation
• Reference Book: Molecular Biology of the Cells by Bruce Alberts et al, Chapter:From RNA to Protein link to the book chapter

Discover fun in Statistics

Dear Students

Statistics is part of both BSc and MSc syllabus, so I am sharing with you a fun site to learn statistics. Enjoy learning statistics...

RNA Splicing

Paper II GROUP A: Unit II

Dear MSc First Year Zoology (V.U) Students

• Video: RNA splicing animation
• Video: a more realistic animation
• Reference Book: Biochemistry by Jeremy M Berg, John L Tymoczko, and Lubert Stryer, Chapter:The Transcription Products of All Three Eukaryotic Polymerases Are Processed link to the book chapter
• Refrence Video: a talk by Thomas Cech: Ribozyme discovery

Hotspot Regions of India

Dear BSc Second Year Botany (H) Students

Please find study material for Hotspot regions at a note on hotspots of India