PMC MDCAT Biology Syllabus 2024

Students who are waiting for syllabus are informed their wait has been finished. PMC has issued the syllabus of subject Biology for MDCAT Test. PMC has provided the full syllabus of Biology for the students so that they can get good marks in MDCAT test with full preparation. Now students have best time to prepare the full syllabus to achieve the good marks in MDCAT test. 

PMC MDCAT Biology Full Syllabus 2024

Here students get the full syllabus of Biology which is issued by PMC for MDCAT Test 2024. Students can download the full syllabus of Biology in pdf form.

PMC MDCAT BIOLOGY SYLLABUS 2024

                                        Content List for Biology

1- Biodiversity (a cellular life/ variety of life)

2- Bio-energetic

3- Biological Molecules

4- Cell Structure and function

5- Coordination and control/ nervous & chemical Coordination

6- Diversity among Animals

7- Enzymes

8- Evolution

9- Life process in Animals & Plants (nutrition/ gaseous exchange/ transport)

10- Prokaryotes

11- Reproduction

12- Support & movement

13- Variation & genetics/ inheritance

TOPICS OF SYLLABUS

BIODIVERSITY (ACELLULAR LIFE/ VARIETY OF LIFE)

• Classification of viruses
• Discovery of viruses
• Structure of viruses
• Viral disease (for example AIDS)

BIOENERGETICS

• Anaerobic respiration (respiration without oxygen)
• Electron transport chain
• Glycolysis/glycolytic pathway/aerobic respiration
• Light dependent and light independent phases/reactions,
• Oxidative phosphorylation /cyclic and non- cyclic phosphorylation,
• Photosynthesis,
• Production of ATP
• Role of light, water, CO2, /factors effecting photosynthesis

BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES

• Introduction to biological molecules
• Water
• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• Lipids    
• Conjugated molecules (glycolipids, glycoproteins)

CELL STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

• Cell wall,
• Cytoplasm and cell organelles

                   - Nucleus

                   - Endoplasmic reticulum

                   - Mitochondria

                   - Golgi apparatus/ golgi complex / golgi bodies

                   - Lysosomes

                   - Plastids/chloroplasts

                   - Vacuoles

• Prokaryote and eukaryote
• Fluid mosaic model

COORDINATION & CONTROL/ NERVOUS & CHEMICAL COORDINATION

• Nervous system

                 - Nerve impulse

                 - Steps involved in nervous coordination

                 - Neurons (Structure and Types)

• Transmission of action potential between cells–synapse

                - Electrical synapses

                - Chemical synapses

                - Transmission of nerve impulse across synapse

• Hormones
• Endocrine glands
• Feedback mechanism

                - Positive feedback mechanism

                - Negative feedback mechanism

• Reflexes and reflex arc
• Levels of the spinal cord and its main functions
• Parts of the brain with their main functions

DIVERSITY AMONG ANIMALS (THE KINGDOM ANIMALIA)

• Characteristics and diversity among the animals (animal phyla, characteristics)

ENZYMES

• Introduction/characteristics of enzymes
• Mechanism of action of enzymes
• Factors effecting rate of enzyme action
• Enzyme inhibition

EVOLUTION

• Concepts of evolution
• Inheritance of acquired characteristics
• Darwinism’
• Darwin’s theory evolution
• Neo-Darwinism’s
• Evidence of evolution

LIFE PROCESSES IN ANIMALS & PLANTS (NUTRITION/ GASEOUS EXCHANGE/ TRANSPORT)

• Carnivorous plants/parasitic nutrition (pitcher plant, venus fly trap, sundew)
• Water and mineral uptake by roots, xylem and phloem
• Osmotic pressure/potential
• Cardiovascular system (including human heart structure, blood vessels)
• Respiratory system
• Digestive system
• Immune & system
• Lymphatic system

PROKARYOTES (KINGDOM MONERA)          

• Cellular Structure of bacteria
• Shape and size of bacteria
• Importance and control of bacteria

REPRODUCTION

• Male reproductive system
• Female reproductive system (including menstrual cycle)
• Sexually transmitted diseases

SUPPORT & MOVEMENT

• Cartilage
• Types of muscles

              - Skeletal muscles

              - Cardiac muscles

              - Smooth muscles

• Structure of skeletal muscles
• Mechanism of skeletal muscle contraction
• Types of joints
• Arthritis

VARIATION & GENETICS/ INHERITANCE

• Mendel’s law of inheritance
• Gregor John Mendel and his work
• Mendel’s experiment
• Inheritance of single trait
• Mendel’s principles of inheritance
• Inheritance of two traits
• Law of independent assortment
• Scope of independent assortment in variation
• Statistics and probability relevant to genetics

• Multiple alleles
• Gene linkages and crossing over
• Sex linkages in drosophila
• Sex linkage in human
• Genetics of hemophilia

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