GATE EXAM SYLLABUS 

GATE 2021 Syllabus for Biotechnology (BT)

                       GATE – Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. GATE exam is a national level IIT entrance exam for PG programs in Engineering and Technologies. Every year the GATE exam is conducted by any one of the best IIT’s. This year the GATE 2021 is going to organized by IIT Bombay.
Gate biotechnology syllabus

The GATE exam is usually conducted in the month of February. This year GATE 2021 exam will be conducted 5th -7th & 12th -14th of February.

                     The mode of the exam is CBT (Computer Based Test). The GATE 2021 application form will be released in 14th September. There are some updates in the GATE syllabus are made this year.

Biotechnology (BT) syllabus:

                     There are totally 7 sections are there apart from the GENERAL APTITUDE(GA) it covers Verbal Ability & Numerical Ability.

 SECTION 1: Engineering Mathematics

  •   Linear Algebra
  •  Calculus
  •  Differential equation
  •  Probability and Statistics
  •  Numerical Methods

SECTION 2: General Biology

  •  Biochemistry
  •  Microbiology
  •  Immunology

SECTION 3:

  •  Genetics and Evolutionary biology
  •  Cell Biology
  •  Molecular Biology

SECTION 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

  •   Engineering principles applied to biological systems
  •   Classical thermodynamics and Bioenergetics
  •    Transport process 

SECTION 5: Bioprocess Engineering and process Biotechnology

  •   Bioprocess Engineering
  •   Upstream and Downstream processing
  •  Instrumentation and process control

SECTION 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

  •  Plant
  • Animal
  • Microbes

SECTION 7: Recombinant DNA technology and other tools in biotechnology

  •  Recombinant DNA technology
  •  Molecular Tools
  •   Analytical Tools

QUESTION TYPES:

Ø The question paper contains 3 type of questions

1.     MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions)

2.     MSQs (Multiple Select Questions)

3.     NATs (Numerical answer type)

Ø Totally 65 questions will be asked for 100 marks in the exam out it 15 from General Aptitude and 55 from the subjects.

Marks Distributions- Biotechnology paper   

o     General Aptitude (GA)      = 15 marks

o   Engineering Mathematics  = 13 marks

o   Subject Questions              = 72 mark

       Total = (15+13+72)   = 100 marks

  •           The total duration of the exam is about 3 hours
  •            The negative marking is there for the Multiple-Choice Questions & Multiple Select Questions, and there are no negative marks for the Numerical Answer Type questions.

             The information’s mentioned above are based upon the reference with the latest official updates from the IIT Bombay for the GATE exam 2021. If any further update comes it will be posted in this blog.

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