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INDEX 



ABO, 16-46 

 Acatalasemia, 124 

 Acetaldehyde, 172, 195 

 Achondroplasia (Chondrodystrophy), 



14-15 

 Acriflavine, 80 



Adenine, 93, 95, 97, 102, 155, 185, 202 

 deamination of, 82 

 requiring strain of Neurospora, 

 131, 134 

 Adenine reversions, 133 

 Adenosine, 226 



Adenosine riboside, action of form- 

 aldehyde, 114 

 Adrenergic blockade, 171 

 Agammaglobulinemia, 23 

 Agents, alkylating, 168, 171, 175, 

 177 

 carcinogenic, 170 

 carcinostatic, 170 

 mutagenic, 170 

 Agglutinogen sites, number of per 



cell, 33 

 Aldehydes, 171 

 Alkylating agents, in Hodgkin's 



disease, 170-71 

 Allyl isothiocyanate, 79, 197 

 Amino acid peroxides, 114 

 Aminopurine, 95-96, 149, 152 

 incorporation into DNA, 89 

 incorporation of, in phage T4, 91 

 mutagenic action of, 96 

 mutants, induced, 104 

 Aminotriazol, 197 

 Amphetamine, psychic stimulation 



of, 210 

 Anti-Ai, Dolichos, 28, 39 



Antibody, bi-specific, 33 



fluorescent, 26-27 

 Antimutagenic, effect of purine 



riboside, 98 

 Antimutagenic nucleoside, 177 

 Antimutagens, 115, 177, 226 

 Antirrhinum, mutation of two al- 

 leles in, 57 

 Ankylosing spondylitis, 175 

 Anoxia, 174 



Ascorbic acid, 198, 201 

 Atropine, 169, 173 

 Autopolyploidy, cryptic, 69 

 Azaserine, 89, 98 



B vitamins, 198 



Bacillus subtilis, double mutants in, 



54 

 tryptophan and histidine markers 



in, 55 

 Bacteria, drug resistance in, 190 

 effect of caffeine on, 220 

 heminless, 130 

 hot spot in, 144 

 induction of mutation in, by 



nitrous acid, 86 

 induction of mutation in, with 



heat, 86-87, 149 

 metabolism of caffeine in, 213 

 mutagenic effects of caffeine in, 



214 

 mutagenicity of heavy water in, 



98-99 

 mutations, expression in, 70 

 recessive losses of function in, 5 

 treatment of, with nitrous acid, 



85 



