Microbiology, Genetic Engineering, Biochemistry, Enzyme Technology, Immunology, Microbiology, Cell Biology, etc are the main topics covered under the syllabus of Ph.D (Biotechnology) entrance exam. Reference books like Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria by Dale, Enzyme Structure & Mechanism by Alan Fersht, Pharmaceuticals Microbiology by Purohit & Saluja, Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of plants by Buchanan can be used for preparation.

Books for Molecular Biology

• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of plants by Buchanan
• Cell and Molecular Biology; Concepts & Experiments by Karp,G
• Cell proliferation and apoptosis by Hughes & Mehnet
• Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish
• Cell & Molecular Biology by de Robertis & df Robertis
• Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by Nelson & Cox
• Molecular Biology of Cells by Albert’s et al
• The Cell: A molecular Approach by Cooper,G.M

Books for Genetic Engineering

• Genomes by Brown,T.A
• Principles of Gene Manipulation by Old and Primerose
• Gene Cloning: An introduction by Brown
• A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genome & Society by Watson
• Genetic Engineering: An Introduction to Gene Analysis and Exploitation
• Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual by Sambrook & others
• Molecular Genetics of Bacteria by Dale
• Genes & Genomes by Singer & Berg
• Molecular Biotechnology by Glick & Pasternak
• Plant Molecular Biology by Gilmartin & Bowler
• Recombinant DNA by Watson et al

Books for Biochemistry

• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of plants by Buchanan et al
• Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by Nelson & Cox
• Biochemistry by Stryer, L
• Text book of Biochemistry by Devlin,Thomas, M
• Biochemistry by Zubay,G
• Biochemistry Fundamentals by Voet et al
• Biochemistry by Friedfider,D.
• Practical Biochemistry by Plummer

Books for Enzyme and Enzyme Technology

• Enzyme Kinetics by Palmer
• Enzyme Kinetics by Dixon
• Fundamental of Enzymology by Price & Steven
• The Enzymes by Boyer
• Enzyme Structure & Mechanism by Alan Fersht
• Enzyme Biotechnology by Tripathi, G
• Industrial Enzyme & their Application by Uhlig, H
• Enzyme by Dixon M. & Webb, E.C
• Enzyme Kinetics by Voet & Voet

Books for Immunology

• Essentials of Immunology by Roitt
• Immunology by Kuby J
• Immunology – An Introduction by Tizard, I.R., Thompson Pub
• Immunology by Roitt
• Principle & Practice of Immunoassay by Christopher & David
• Animal Cell Culture by Freshney, R.T
• Animal Cell Culture & Technology – Basic from Background to Bench byTaylor & Fracis

Books for Microbiology

• Alcamo’s Fundamental of Microbiology by Pommerville
• Brock Biology of Microbiology by Martinko,M.T & Parker,J
• Food Microbiology by Adam, M.R
• Foundation in Microbiology by Talaro & Talora
• Microbiology by Prescott, Harley & Klein
• Microbiology by Tortora,F
• Pharmaceuticals Microbiology by Purohit & Saluja
• Principles of Microbiology by Atlas,R.M

Books for Cell Biology

• Molecular Biology of Cells by Albert’s
• Molecular Cell Biology by Lodish
• Cell and Molecular Biology; Concepts & Experiments by Karp,G
• The Cell: A molecular Approach by Cooper,G.M
• Cell & Molecular biology, de Robertis & df Robertis
• Cell proliferation and apoptosis by Hughes & Mehnet
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of plants by Buchanan
• Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry by Nelson & Cox

Other than text books mentioned here, e-books and study materials collected from web can be used for studies.