KCK: superb movie

KCK is better than MNIK and 3I's.

The plot keeps its strength till end. At one point it seems it was a supernatural movie. And the calls must be from the dead brother of Kartik. But amazingly and to mush surprise there was no brother at all.

The ending could have been better. The schizophrenic Kartic must have left dead.
But the bollywood director sticks to happy ending rathan than more realistic.

So far I could not find whether the plot was inspired from another hollywood movie or was original.

But with such a low budget it is such a hilarious movie.
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Expected Zoology viva voce questions - B.Sc Life Science - Ist year

1Plasmid dna isolation

Q1 What is a plasmid?
Q2 What is genomic dna?
Q 3 What is the need of plasmid isolation?
Q4 What is the protocol of plasmid isolation?
Q5 What is the name of protocol used for plasmid isolation?
Q6 What is GTE? What are the function of these chemicals?

Q7 Why genomic DNA doesn't come by using GTE method?
Q8 What is a plasmid vector? Give two examples.
Q9 Which plasmid have you isolated? What is its size?


Q10 What is AGE?
Q11 What is agarose?
Q12 Why the gel electrophoresis is horizontal and not vertical as PAGE?
Q13 What is the principle of Agarose gel electrophoresis?
Q14 What is the optimal voltage for plasmid separation on gel electrophoresis?
Q15 Which buffer is used for gel preparation and as running buffer?
Q16 What is the composition of TBE?

Q17 Which stain is used for DNA staining?
Q18 What is the name of interaction that occurs between DNA and EtBr?
Q19 How does EtBr function?
Q20 Which color does EtBr give to DNA (Hint: It's not a color)?
Q21 What is the difference between fluorescence and phosphorescence?
Q22 Why EtBr is considered dangerous?

Q22 How EtBr is safely disposed off?

2 Meiosis
Q1 Name various stages of meiosis.

Q2 What are the various substages of meiosis?

Q3 Where does meiosis occus in animals?

Q4 Where does meiosis occus in plants?
Q5 At what stage crossing over occurs?
Q6 What happens in zygotene?
Q7 What is the significance of meiosis?
Q8 Which division is equational?
Q9 Which division is reductional?
Q10 In what form the chromosomes are seen in metaphase polar view?
Q11 How do you identify leptotene?
Q12 Name the stages of cell cycle.

3TLC
Q1 Explain the principle of TLC.
Q2 What is rf value?
Q3 If a solute travel less, what does it mean?
Q4 How silica is activated?
Q5 What is paper chromatograpy?
Q6 what is the mobile phase?
Q7 what is the stationary phase?

4 Janus green
Q1 What is the principle of this staining?
Q2 Which cytochrome helps in this reaction?
Q3 Why is it called vital stain?
Q4Why bubble is introduced?
Q5Why the cells are kept alive?

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Good Luck?

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Expected Zoology viva voce questions - B.Sc Life Science - Ist year

I Qualitative tests for carbohydrates, protein and lipids.

Q1 What is the principle of test X (e.g Benedict's test)?
Q2 Why the test X is used?
Q3 What is the procedure for test X.

Q4 what is a positive control?
Q5 What is a negative control?
Q6 Why controls are used?

II Temorary mounts

Q1 What kind of cells are present inside buccal cavity?
Q2 What kind of cells are present on the outer surface of cheek?
Q3 What is the shape of neurons?
Q4 What are striations called in muscle cells?
Q5 Where does striated muscle cells exist in human?
Q6 How many types of muscle cells are present in human?
Q7 Where smooth and cardiac muscle cells are present?
Q8 Where the nucleus is present in striated muscle cells?
Q9 Why striated muscle cells are multinucleate?
Q10 What are A bands and I bands? Why are they called so?
Q11 What is sarcomere?
Q12 What is the cytoplasm of straited muscle called?
Q13 What is the plasma membrane of straited muscle called?
Q14 What is the endoplasmic reticulum of straited muscle called?
Q15 What is a temporary mount? How does it differ from permanent mount?

III Cytochemical distribution of mucopolysaccharides and nucleic acid
Q1 What are mucopolysaccharides?
Q2 What are nucleic acids? Why are they called acids?
Q3 What is the principle of PAS staining?
Q4 What is the principle of Feulgen staining?
Q5 What is Schiff's reagent?

IV Hemocytometer
Q1 What is RBC chamber? What are it's distinguishing features?
Q2 What is WBC chamber? What are it's distinguishing features?
Q3 Which fluid is used for RBC dilution. What is it's composition?
Q4 What is the normal RBC count?
Q5 Abnormal increase in RBC count is called -?
Q6 Abnormal decrease in RBC count is called -?
Q7 What formula is used to count the number of R.B.C's.
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to be continued
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MNIK - disappoints

Well I was right. MNIK really has no charm in it. Just like a boring documentary!
1
The actors were good but the major thing which led to the disaster was - lack of a good story.
The theme was the same as we had already seen in New York - which was a far better and realistic movie.

KJO shud have been aware of the story line of NY. Unfortunately he was not.

2
The other thing is the repetence of same old crap - "All muslims are not terrorist".
What the heck. How many times one will hear this. As if we don't understand.

Media and prints are full of such things.
Apart from NY - Aamir was also one such film out of many.

Everyone knows that All muslims are not terrorist - But unfortunately majority of terrorists are muslims. So people take precautions only which are mandatory too.

3
The acting of SRK as autistic person is not a very amazing feat.
And it's not the very first movie to portrait the - Asperger syndrome.

Check the movie -Mozart and the Whale - Josh hartnett has better acted it out. SRK is a bad mimicry of Hartnett!
This point also rules out the "originality" of the movie.

4
Sentimental scenes - well if you will put so many deaths - people are ought to get sentimental.
and every one will be sympathetic with an autistic person.

Conclusion:
No doubt SRK and Kajol are good actors and KJO a good director.
But the problem here in India is - same person wants to do everything.

Same doesn't happen in hollywood. The production houses recieve millions of manuscript, read them, choose them and only then make movies.

Same is the reason why Indian movies don't get oscars.

To conclude I watched this movie - and I will call it an average one.

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P.S: People will see it for SRK and Kajol.

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Course framework for B.Sc Life Science

A meeting of various college teachers was called up regarding course structure framework for B.Sc Life Sciences so as to adjust according to semester system at ILLL, North Campus.

The meeting was just started when some teachers and members of DUTA came in and made plea to boycott the semester system. Nobody buzzed!

However, they cotinued the disturbance in a typical (un)parliamentarian way and the teachers could not do the work in this chaos. It was lunch time and then the teachers went for the lunch.

After the lunch the teachers moved to another room and the opposers again made the plea, but left in the disappointment since no one obliged.

The commitee for different papers were finally made, convenors decided.
I myself have been assigned the paper called - microbial diversity.

In the end when the teachers were moving out, some opposers came inside
in the most ungraceful way, and shouted at the top of their voices in mere frustration. Some of them lifted chairs also don't know to prove what (and they were teachers perhaps).

Anyways opposition has also to be there, after all we live in a democratic country. But it should be in a more decent and strategic way.

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A fact: When James Watt made his steam engine and was about to demonstarte it - many in the crowd said - will it ever start even!

JW went ahead and the boat started. Everyone exclaimed with joy.

But the same critics said - Will it be able to stop now!

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Nishant's project

Yesterday I received a mail from one of my student. It's so good and important that I would like to share it here on this blog.

Nishant has written:

Dear friends and respected elders
As one cellular company is busy making people aware of the loss of our national animal somewhere in dark we've lost the international clening agent, vultures from our land. plz forward this message to at least one more person n ask him to do the sameone more request---- read the attached document. and ask ur milkman about the drug he uses for his cattles ask him to replace DICLOFENAC with MELOXICAM in wake of our vultures. plz report about the sight of vulture in the open sky in ur area toryu.nish@gmail.com, ph 9968509225 also in case u see a vet. doctor practicing in ur area, request him to not prescribe diclofenac. promote the use of meloxicamlets help out those who silently cleaned our dead remains for centuries in return he asks only ur kind support for his revival contact ryu.nish@gmail.com for details. i'm sure ur ears wont let this imp message to pass by
thanking you
Nishant
zoology student
sri vekateswara college
delhi university

My comment:

Vultures eat the corpses of cattles that have been treated with diclofenac, and are poisoned by it. This leads to renal failure and death of vultures.

This is a good initiative by Nishant and hope many will join.

Miss you - Vultures!

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My name is Khan - Will it be worth watching?

Well KJo and SRK are back with perhaps another chick flick - MNIK.

Bollywood has a habit - if a film gets hit on certan formula - everyone joins the rat race and we see a row of similar kind of movies.

The formula of last few months was - Syndrome.
Find a disease syndrome and wrap a story around it.

Movies like tare zameen par (dyslexia), Paa (progeria), and now MNIK (Asperger syndrome).
Things become quite monotonous like this if not presented properly.

Unfortunately MNIK sounds just a repeat and remix of =
NEW YORK (movie) + A Syndrome

So this has made me a bit skeptic about the prospect of this movie.

I wish I would be wrong and we could see some magic on the screen!

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5% brain use and its proof

There is a theory that human being uses 5-10% of their brain power. And most of it lies latent.
And this latency ocurs mostly due to lethargy which in turn due to lack of motivation.

As a last assignment when I announced that students have to make all the diagrams related to the syllabus (one more time) , a disappointment was shown. And it was the proof to the concept.

However disinteresting this assignment may have sound, it will help the students in following ways:

1
Revision is the key: In order to become an expert one has to make these diagrams at least 4-5 times. This assignment will help in one more revision.

2
Nothing is impossible: If they will do the assignment they will find this fact for themselves.

3
Time management: If they have to make 100 diagrams in 15 days (as they have been given), how many diagrams one has to make every day?
Ans: 7 only. Ans is it that tough!

And some students can even go one step ahead and may complete in 7 days also.
4
Increased creativity: Diagrams are good for our right side of brain. Right side is responsible for creativity which in turn is an essential factor for success in life.

5
Comparitive benefits: Students will be comparitively ( a guess) putting more efforts than students of other colleges which will move them at the upper level of competition. This comment is for en mass.

6 Misc: Students will find hidden powers in them, they will get more confident, they can feel proud at their hard work, they will be more happy to face final exams, etc.

I hope I will get the assignment in time this time.

Happy drawing!!

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Staff picnic

Many teachers went to picnic last friday. The spot was Sohna - famous for hot water spring.
It was an average experience.
Following things happened:
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After aboarding the bus first thing was distribution of big and juicy oranges (I like oranges,lots of vit C). And it was followed by yet hilarius event or say custom to which I was introduced for the first time. It was "Chilka maro". All the young teachers were sitting at the back wheras elder in the front. So after peeling and eating up the oranges everyone started throwing chilkas, aiming a
and hitting the heads of people sitting in the front.
It was worth watching.

2
After reaching the place we took light breakfast of sandwiches, pakoras, cutlets, cookies, tea and coffee etc at the restaurant of haryana tourism. The place itself was no sight-seeing type.
Then we set for the spring. We have to climb down a hill. We took a wrong route. But we decided to follow the same and experience some mountaineering. There were lots of rock and step slope.
I easily got down and was first to reach the road down there. Others also managed to come down. Some with the help of others.
3
The hot water spring was inside a temple. The outside of the temple was a mess and dirty.
Even inside the scene was no good. However I watched the pond of hot water which was enclosed in a temple like building. It could be peeped from a window.
4
After coming back people played cricket (the game I don't like), went for tracking, enjoyed rides and swings etc. After that cocktails and lunch were taken.
5
While coming back we sang songs and tried to enjoy.

Had the place been chosen well it could have been a better experience.

Assignments submission failure

Many students of B.Sc (Life Science) II and III year have failed to submit their assignments on time.

Here its last advice for them to submit their requisite assignments otherwise they will be given ZERO.

The last date is being extended to 4th February 2010.