DNA replication, repair and recombination :Unit of
replication, enzymes involved, replication origin and replication fork,
fidelity of replication, extrachromosomal replicons, DNA damage and repair
mechanisms, homologous and site-specific recombination.
RNA
synthesis and processing :transcription factors
and machinery, formation of initiation complex, transcription activator and
repressor, RNA polymerases, capping, elongation, and termination, RNA
processing, RNA editing, splicing, and polyadenylation, structure and function
of different types of RNA, RNA transport.
Protein
synthesis and processing :Ribosome, formation of
initiation complex, initiation factors and their regulation, elongation and
elongation factors, termination, genetic code, aminoacylation of tRNA,
tRNA identity, aminoacyl tRNA synthetase, and translational proof-reading,
translational inhibitors, Post- translational modification of proteins.
Control
of gene expression at transcription and translation level: regulating the expression of phages, viruses, prokaryotic and
eukaryotic genes, role of chromatin in gene expression and gene silencing.