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1. Cell Biology ............................................................................................1
2. Biochemistry .........................................................................................17
3. Microbiology .........................................................................................33
4. Immunology ..........................................................................................49
5. Molecular Biology ................................................................................65
6 Plant Physiology ....................................................................................83
7. Genetics ...............................................................................................101
8 RDT .....................................................................................................119
9 Plant Biotechnology ............................................................................135
10 Animal Biotechnology ........................................................................149
11 Environmental Biology .......................................................................163
12 Genomics and Proteomics ...................................................................177
13 Biostatistics .........................................................................................195
14 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology .......................................213
15 Fermentation and Downstream Processing .........................................231
16 Nanotechnology ..................................................................................245
17 Stem Cells and Gene Therapy .............................................................259
18 Intellectual Property Rights .................................................................277
19 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & Drug Design ..................................293
20 Biophysics and Structural Biology .....................................................309
Mock Test 1 .........................................................................................319
Mock Test 2 .........................................................................................329
Mock Test 3 .........................................................................................337
Mock Test 4 .........................................................................................347
Mock Test 5 .........................................................................................363
