Index 



Absorption spectrum, 56, 63, 64 



Acceleration, 26, 90 



Acetylcholine, 47 



Actin, 71, 73 



Action spectrum, 53, 55, 61-65 



Actomyosin, 60, 71 



Albumin, 77 



Arithmetic mean, 1-3 



Atoms, 28-33, 35, 38 



ATP, 38, 70, 71 



Avogadro's number, 55 



Bacteriophage, 82, 101-104 

 Bands (muscle), 59, 71-74 

 Basilar membrane, 47-51 

 Biological variability, 41 

 Birefringence, 55, 58-60 



flow, 59 



form, 59 



intrinsic, 58 

 Blood, 77, 102 

 Bond energies (table), 33 

 Bonds, chemical, 25, 27-36, 38, 58, 59, 



covalent, 30, 33, 35, 59 



electric, 30 



hydrogen, 32, 34-36 



ionic, 29, 30, 33 



partial ionic, 30 

 Bonds and energy exchange, 35 

 Bragg's law, 93 

 Brownian motion, 36, 80, 85, 86, 91 



Carotenoids, 61-63 

 Centrifugation, 76, 83-92 

 Cesium chloride, 85, 87, 88 

 Chi-squared, 12, 16-19 

 Chlorophyll, 54, 61-63 

 Chloroplasts, 60 

 Chromatids, 103 

 Chromosomes, 103, 117 

 CO 2 uptake, 101 

 Cochlea, 47-50 

 Colorimeters, 79 

 Compton effect, 107 

 Conductors, 52 

 Cones, 39, 44 

 Correlation, 22-24 

 Covalent bond, 30, 31, 33, 36 

 Creatine phosphate, 70 

 Crystals, 92-97 



Curie, 100 



Cytochrome, 82 



Deafness, 50 



Density gradient centrifugation, 85-89 

 Deviations, 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 13, 16, 18, 20, 

 23 



least-squared, 3, 20, 31 



standard, 4, 7, 10-13 

 Dichroism, 55, 60, 61 

 Diffusion, 47, 75-77, 80 



coefficient, 10, 82, 83, 91 

 Dipole, 32, 34, 35 

 Distributions, 5-10 

 DNA, 56, 57, 60, 79, 87-90 



bacterial, 90 



melted, 57 



Watson-Crick model, 87 

 Double refraction (see Birefringence) 



Efficiency, 69, 70 

 7g Electron orbits, 36, 52-54 

 Electrophoresis, 76-78 



filter paper, 78 

 Electrophoretic mobility, 77 

 Energy, 25-38, 61-63, 67-70 



in biology, 63, 69 



electrical, 28, 29, 33 



exchange, 30, 31, 36 



states, 52 



transfer, 53, 54, 61-63 



van' der Waals, 32 

 Errors, 2, 3, 5 



compounding, 10, 11 



standard, 7, 13 

 Eye, 39-45 



Fluorescence, 53, 54, 61, 62 

 Force, 25-29, 34, 35, 68, 69 



centrifugal, 90 



electrical, 27-29, 32, 34, 35, 76, 77, 106 



frictional, 76, 90 



gravitational, 26 



magnetic, 26 



viscous, 27, 59 



van der Waals, 27, 32 

 Free radicals, 107, 108 

 Frequency curves, 4-10 

 Frequency discrimination, 46-51 



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