Books to prepare for M.Sc. Biotechnology Entrence Exams 2019

1.  Biochemistry:

• Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry - AlbertL. Lehninger
• Biochemistry - Jeremy M. Berg, John L.Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer
• Biochemistry (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews)
• Biochemistry - Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet
• Biochemistry – U. Satyanarayana, U.Chakrapani

2.  Bioinformatics: Although there won’t be any Bioinformatics questions, but still if you want to refer to some chapters, here are the books. David Mount is a very good book with easy to follow language.

• Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis- David W. Mount
• Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols -  Edited by Stephen Misener, Stephen A. Krawetz
• Essential Bioinformatics - Jin Xiong
• Bioinformatics for Dummies – Jean-Michel Claverie, Cedric Notredame
• Introduction to Bioinformatics – Arthur M.Lesk

3.  Biotechnology: Following Biotechnology course books cover basic topics that are generally prescribed by most of the universities. They are good for developing basic understanding.

• Biotechnology – U. Satyanarayana
• Biotechnology: Expanding Horizons – B.D.Singh
• A Textbook of Biotechnology – R.C. Dubey
• Genome- T.A. Brown

4.  Cell Biology:

• Molecular Biology of the Cell – Bruce Alberts
• Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments – Gerald Karp
• Molecular Cell Biology – Harvey Lodish

5.  Developmental Biology:

• Developmental Biology – Scott Gilbert

6.  Genetics:

• Genes Series by Benjamin Lewin
• Principles of Genetics – Robert H. Tamarin
• Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Genetics - William D. Stansfield
• Molecular Biology of the Gene – James Watson

7.  Genetic Engineering:

• Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual -Joseph Sambrook
• Principles of Gene Manipulation and Genomics– Sandy Primrose, Richard M. Twyman and Robert W. Old

8.  Immunology:

• Kuby Immunology - Richard Goldsby and ThomasJ. Kindt
• Cellular and Molecular Immunology - Abul K.Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, and Jordan S. Pober
• Immunobiology – Charles Janeway
• High-yield immunology – Arthur G. Johnson:Good for quick revision
• Schaum's Outline of Immunology - George Pinchuk

9.  Microbiology:

• Prescott's Microbiology - Christopher J.Woolverton, Joanne M. Willey, Linda Sherwood
• Microbiology - Gerard J. Tortora
• Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews Microbiology– William A. Strohl

10.  Plant and Animal Tissue Culture:

• Plant Tissue Culture & Plant Biotechnology – B.D. Singh
• Plant Tissue Culture: Theory and Practice –S.S. Bhojwani, M.K. Razdan
• Culture of Animal Cells – Ian Freshney: Although this mainly contains protocols, which is of no much use during bachelor studies (as well as for M.Sc. entrance exams’ preparation), but you can extract some information.
• Principles and Practice of Animal Tissue Culture – Sudha Gangal

11.  Spectroscopy: Again, there won’t be much of Spectroscopy in your Biotech syllabus. But youmay refer to some of the chapters if you want.

• Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy –Joseph R. Lackowitz
• Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences –Gordon G. Hammes

12.  Zoology and Medical Physiology: Questions on Zoology and Human Physiology won’t be asked in competitive exams, but can be useful if you’ve Zoology in your bachelors.

• Chordate Zoology – Jorden and Verma
• Essentials of Medical Physiology - K.Sembulingam and Prema Sembulingam
• Guyton And Hall Textbook Of Medical Physiology Paperback – John E. Hall

13.  Chemistry:

• Physical Chemistry:
• Atkins’ Physical Chemistry
• Essentials of Physical Chemistry – B.S. Bahl, G.D. Tuli, Arun Bahl
• Inorganic Chemistry:
• Advanced Inorganic Chemistry – Satya Prakash,G.D. Tuli, S.K. Basu, R.D. Madan
• Inorganic Chemistry – B. Sivasankar
• Organic Chemistry:
• Organic Chemistry – Arun Bahl, B.S. Bahl
• Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry – Mukul C. Ray
• Organic Chemistry – Morrison and Boyd