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Evolution : 



and eye pigments. 358. 381 



influenced by ionizing radiation. 200 

 Exact differential, 387 

 Exponential curve, 338 

 External auditory meatus, 9, 19-20 

 Extinction coefficient, 487, 489 



millimolar, 489 



molar, 489 



specific, 489 

 Eye, 34-43 



anatomy, 39-43 



geometrical optics of. 37-39 

 gross, 34—37 

 histology, 39-43 



pigments, 50, 358 

 Eyeball, 34 

 Eyepiece, 538 



FAD, 347 

 Fall-out, 201-202 

 Far-sighted, 39 

 Fat molecule, 270 

 Feedback, 22, 71, 92-96, 180 



negative, 71, 92-96 



and the nervous system, 92-96. 180 



positive, 94 

 Ferromagnetism, 526 

 Ferroprotoporphyrin IX. 334 

 Fibrinogen, 473 



Fick diffusion equation. 423—424 

 Field curvature, 36, 65 

 Filaments of muscle: 



thick, 151-154 



thin, 151-154 

 Finger-print region, 513 

 Focal points, 30 

 Forbidden lines, 512 

 Fourier series, 6 

 Fourier synthesis, 285 

 Fourier transform, 6, 180 

 Fovea (centralis), 35, 48-50, 127 

 Free energy, 147 {see also Gibbs' free energy) 

 Free radical, 302, 311-312, 375, 380, 



533-536 

 Frequency, 5 



difference limen, 18 



just noticeable differences, 17 

 Fructose, 271-272, 368-369 

 Fructose-6-phosphate, 368—369 

 Fucoxanthol, 373 

 Fumerase, 380, 477 

 Function transformer, 574 

 Fundamental, f, 518 

 Fundamental frequency, 8 

 Funnelling, 112 



GABA (gamma-amino-butyric acid), 180 

 Galloxanthine, 358 

 Gamma ray, 185, 613 

 wavelengths, 482 



Ganglion, 75 

 Geiger counter. 560 

 Gene, 197 



enzyme relationship, 197 

 Genetic recombination. 191. 250 

 Genetics: 



phage, 256-260 

 Gibbs' free energy, 147, 364, 370. 390 



definition, 390 



and equilibrium, 391 



partial molal. 391-392 

 Globar. 490 

 Globulins, 148 



Glucose, 150, 271-272, 368-369 

 Glutamic acid, 276 

 Glycine, 275, 564 

 Glycolytic enzymes, 150 

 Glycosidase, 318 

 Golgi body, 268 

 Gouy balance, 528—530 

 Grana, 362—363 

 Gtianine, 279 

 G value, 312-313 



H 



Hair cells, 25, 111 



Half-life, 559 



Harmonic, 8 



Hearing, 1-5, 10-25, 65, 104-118, 467-469 



arm analog, 111—113 



cochlear mechanism of neural excitation, 

 108-111 



cortical representation, 113—116 



hydrodynamic theory, 108—113 



information theory, 467—469 



limits, 12-18 



neural mechanisms, 104—118 



place theory, 104-108 



lesions, evidence from, 107-108 



quantum effect in. 18 



resonator theory, 105—108 



special uses of, 52—64 



telephone theorv, 104-108 



tests, 10-19 



threshold of. 10-19 

 Hearing loss, 16 



pure tone, 16 



speech. 16 

 Heart, 157-179 



energy relationships, 166 



fish and amphibian, 161-162 



mammalian, 161—163 



rate. 165, 181 



reptilian, 161-102 



sequence of events, 163-168 

 electrical events, 164—166 

 over-all sequence, 163—164 



vector, 171-177 

 Heat equation, 424 

 Helicotrema, 24 

 Helmholtz free energy, 390 



and equilibrium, 391 

 Heme, 333-334 

 Hemocyanin, 308 



