UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN MARINE SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester IV - Paper VI - Marine Biotechnology

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Marine natural products - Marine organisms: an alternative source of potentiality valuable natural products - Pharmaceuticals from marine organisms: anti - cancer, diagnostic and therapeutic, bioadhesives and thermostable enzymes.

Unit II

Marine Microbiology - Microbial biofilms; Marine polysaccharaides - biomedical and biotechnological applications - Molecular pathogenicity of aquacultural pathogens; Biochemistry, gene regulation and molecular biology of marine hyperthermophils.

Unit III

Bioremediation - Marine pollution - Aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation in the marine environment - Marine microorganisms capable, of degrading and detoxinng chlorinated hydrocarbons and other pollutants.

Unit IV

Biofauling and Control technology - Biofouling organisms - Problems due to biofouling - Antifouling paints and its environmental pollution - Biotechnological approach to biofouling control.

Unit V

Receptor molecules and chemical signals that control life in ocean - Genetic engineering and ploidy manipulation to enhance growth - reproduction and developrnent of disease resistance in aquacultural species crustaceans, molluscans, fin fishes and algae.

Books Recommended

Environmental Biotechnology, Principles and applications by Bruce E.Rittmann and Perry L. McCarthy., McGraw Hill.