DBT BET JRF Exam 2014 Notification

Biotech Students Don’t miss this exam!

Department of biotechnology-Biotechnology Eligibility Test (DBT-BET-JRF) an exam exclusively for biotechnology students in India. If you are a post graduate in Biotechnology, this is your exam and don’t miss it. The exam is conducted by Department of Biotechnology exclusively for Biotechnology students across India. The number of post graduates in biotechnology is on the rise and after your PG the default option is CSIR-UGC-JRF-NET exam where you have to compete with students from all streams of life science. In that exam also you may not be familiar with questions from basic sciences like botany or zoology where you have to look into lot of areas in biology in order to get through. Actually, you don’t have an advantage in having a PG in biotechnology that often demands good expenditure. With this background, this is the only exam where you get questions only from your subject.

Exam Date: 20 April 2014

Mode of Application: Online for More visit http://nccs.sifyitest.com/BET2014/

DBT BET JRF Exam Syllabus 2014         Official Notification    List of Documents attached
Why you should write this exam?

If you qualify this exam, you will be getting a fellowship amount as similar as CSIR/UGC-JRF/SRF 16000/- 18,000/-for the first two years. You have to submit the progress report every second year. At the end of second year, you have to conduct a JRF assessment. Remember, for lectureship eligibility still you have to qualify NET.

275 JRFs are selected through Biotechnology Eligibility Test (BET), being conducted this year by NCCS, Pune. Fellowships are provided for an initial period of 3  years which could be extended up to five years. Contingency grant of Rs.30, 000/- per fellow per annum is also provided. Top ranking 100 students in merit  are given option to join any institute of their choice in the country for pursuing Ph.D. Option is given to next  175 candidates in merit list to join DBT supported PG teaching universities and DBT institutes.

Mode of Selection:The candidates will be selected based on a single session online admission test, “Biotechnology Eligibility Test”  (BET) to be conducted on 20st April, 2014 at 10 AM in the following twelve cities: New Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Patna, Thiruvananthapuram& Ahmedabad.

Mode of Application: Candidates should register and apply online in the prescribed application form obtainable at the URL http://nccs.sifyitest.com/BET2014/ starting on 20th February 2014. All the details about the application process and the examination are available on the web site.

The last date for submission of online application form is 21st March, 2014. Stepwise procedure for filling the online application form, payment of application fees and uploading  of required documents/certificates is given in the above said URL. The application fee is non-refundable and non-transferable. General/OBC candidates have to pay an application fee of Rs. 500/- and SC/ST/PH categories are exempted from payment of application form.

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Functions of Cerebellum

Cerebellum is also known as  little brain. The cerebellum is similar to cerebrum  in that it has two hemispheres and has a highly folded surface or cortex. The cerebellum is the second largest part of the brain, and is located at the back of the skull. Sections of cerebrum shows branching radiation of white matter into grey matter, called as arbor vitae.
Functions of Cerebellum

• Cerebellum is associated with regulation and coordination of movement, posture and balance.
• The cerebellum receives sensory impulses from muscles, tendons, joints, eyes, and ears as well as input from other brain centres.
• Cerebellum’s unconscious directions and cerebrum’s conscious instructions determine how and when to move body parts.

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Major Functions of Cerebrum (Prosencephalon)

It is the largest part (about two third) of the human brain. It contains slightly more than half of the ten billion neurons of human nervous system. The cerebrum consists of two cerebral hemisphere joined by a curved thick band of nerve fibres, called corpus callosum. The outer layer of the cerebrum , known as cerebral cortex , is formed of grey matter and white matter. Physiologically the cerebral cortex is the highest level in the whole nervous system. Specific regions of cerebral cortex  include the following areas: motor area (control voluntary movements), sensory are(heat, cold, pain, touch, light, pressure and muscle cells), auditory area, visual area, olfactory area(taste and smell) and speech area. The functions of the cerebral cortex are

Functions of Cerebrum

• All voluntary movements are controlled by the cerebrum.
• The motor areas in the frontal lobe of the brain transmit impulses which initiate activities in the muscles and glands.
• Association between various sensations and movements are controlled by association areas, in the frontal lobe.
• The area of the cerebral cortex to which the sensory signals are projected is called the somaesthetic cortex. In man, this area lies mainly in the parietal lobes. This area is the seat for perception of sensations like pain, touch and temperature.
• The visual area and auditory area, in the cerebral cortex is the centre of vision and hearing.

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Functions of Cerebral Lobes

Cerebrum is the largest part and constitute about 80% of the brain. It consists of  two cerebral hemispheres, which held together by a  curved thick band of nerve  fibres called corpus callosum. Three deep and wide fissure divide each cerebral hemisphere into four lobes. They are frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe and occipital lobe.

Lobes and Area	Function
I. Frontal Lobe	Monitoring complex thoughts, actions, creative ideas, perceptions,memories, muscle movements, judgement, insight, reasoning, expression of emotions, decision making, personality, will power etc.
a. Motor area	Controls voluntary movements of the muscles.
b. Premotor area	The highest centre for involuntary movements of muscles and autonomic neural system.
c. Motor speech area (Broca’s area)	Speech
II. Parietal lobe	Registration of sensory perception of touch, pain, heat and cold, knowledge about position in space etc.
a. Somaesthetic area	Perceptions of general sensations like pain, touch, pressure and temperature etc.
b. Gustatory area	Sense of taste.
c. Sensory speech area	Speech
III. Temporal lobe	Decoding and interpretation of sound, language comprehension, smell, memory etc.
a. Olfactory area	Sense of smell
b. Auditory area	Hearing
c. Wernicke’s area	Understanding speech
IV. Occipital lobe	Decoding and interpretation of visual information, shape, colour etc.
a. Visual area	Sensation of light.

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Functions of Spinal Cord

Spinal cord provides the link between the brain and rest of the body. It is a cylindrical cord like structure. It is about 45 cm long and about 35 gm in weight. The spinal cord extends from the medulla oblongata through the neural canal formed by the protective bony arches of vertebrae, almost the length of the spine.

Structure of Spinal Cord : The spinal cord consists of a central canal surrounded by a central core of grey matter, which is surrounded by the white matter. Grey matter surrounding central canal is H shaped or bufferfly shaped. The Grey matter contains the bodies of neurons with tree like branching of their dendrons and neuroglial cells. The white matter is composed of obliquely running medullated nerve fibres supported by prolongations of the neuroglia. These are spinal nerves arising from the spinal cord.

Functions of Spinal Cord

• Spinal cord is the centre of spinal reflex actions.
• The spinal cord is concerned with the conduction of nerve impulse to and from the brain.
• Bundles of nerve fibres that ascend along the white matter of the spinal cord are called ascending tracts. They conduct nerve impulse from the spinal cord to the brain.
• The descending tracts, conduct impulses from the brain to different levels of the spinal cord.

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Major Functions of Kidney

Kidneys are the chief excretory organs of vertebrates, including mammals.They are vitally important in maintaining appropriate body chemistry.

Location: The two kidneys , each weighing about 150 gms in an adult human, lie in the upper posterior part of the abdominal cavity, on either side of the vertebral column.

External Structure: The kidney is a dark red bean shaped structure, measuring about 10 cm in length, 5 cm breadth, and 9 cm in thickness. The outer surface of the kidney is convex and the inner, which faces vertebral column, concave. A depression, called hilus, is present on the concave side. The ureter originates from the hilus and joins the urinary bladder backwardly. The renal artery and renal vein pass in and out at the hilus.

The major role of kidney is as follows.
 
Functions of Kidney 
1. Removal of metabolic wastes: Both nitrogenous and non nitrogenous metabolic wastes are filtered out of blood by kidneys for removal from the body.

2. Regulation of water balance: Kidneys secrete excess hypotonic urine if the body has excess water and hypertonic urine if the body has deficiency of water.

3. Regulation of pH: Kidneys regulate pH of the body fluids by removing the excess acid or base. The ions which take part in this regulation are H+ and HCO3-.

4. Regulation of Salt balance: A proper Na+ -K+ ion balance is a must for functioning of nerves, muscles and other cells. Kidney help in maintaining the same through their retention or excretion.

5. Fluid Homeostasis: Blood volume of the body is maintained through controlling the amount of fluid loss in urine.

6. Elimination of Extra materials: Extra vitamins, drugs, pigments, salts and toxic chemicals are flushed out of the body by the kidneys.

7. Regulation of Blood Pressure: Blood pressure is regulated through secretion or non secretion of renin.

8. Conservation of Water: Kidneys have a very high osmotic concentration in interstitial fluid of medulla, about 1200mosm/1l. This removes water from urine and conserves the same.

9. Erythropoietin is a hormone produced by juxtaglomerular cells in response to decreased RBC count. Erythropoietin stimulates bone marrow to increase the rate of erythropoiesis or formation of red blood corpuscles (RBC).

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