412 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Chemical potential 199 

 Chick 208 



Chick embryo See Embryos 

 Chlamydomonas 301, 306 

 Chloracetyl-DL-alanine 252-3 (Fig. 5) 

 Chloramphenicol 88 

 Chlorophyll 174 

 Choline 208 

 Chromidion 218 



Chromosome 63, 65, 219, 224, 312, 359, 

 373 



— aberrations 55, 298, 301 

 Chymotrypsin 113 

 Chymotrypsinogen 79, 87, 104 

 Cilium 219 



Citruline 71 

 Clupein 79 

 Coacervation 219 

 Cocarboxylase 204 

 Cochlear nucleus 157 

 Code 30, 34, 219, 298 

 — , antigen-antibody 211 

 — , binary 9 



— , DNA-protein 52, 67, 194 

 — , error correcting 32, 281 

 — , Fano 11, 15, 16, 18 

 —, Morse 8,10,41,193 

 — , over-lapping 67, 92 



— groups, combination of 10 

 Coding 



— problem, protein text 87 

 Co-enzymes 192, 204 

 Co-factors 204 

 Collagen 72, 79 

 CoUinearity 380 

 Communication 25 



— channel 3 1 



— -engineering 187 



— ■ systems 30, 35 



Conditioned reflexes 7 



Congolese moth See Anaphe maloneyi 



Congruence, displacement 376 



— , self 376 



Conjugation 309, 310 



Conservation principle, one-sided 189 



— , two-sided 189 



Constraint, measures of 27, 188 



Constraints 37, 105 



Continuity, in information functions 21 



Control, in the animal and in the machine 



187 

 Correlation intersymbol 83 

 Cortex surface 383 

 Creatine-phosphate-ATP system 225 

 Cross reaction 212 

 Cryptography 70 

 Cybernetics 5 

 Cysteamine 259 



Cysteine 70, 101, 129, (Figs. 9, 10), 253, 

 255, 258 



— residues 109 



Cystine 71, 90, 101, 251, 252-3 (Figs. 4, 

 9), 253, 255, 256, 258, 259, 271, 283, 

 284, 288, 290, 292 



Cystinyl residue 71 



Cytidine deaminase 286 



Cytidylic acid 70, 90 



Cytochrome 74, 79 



Cytoplasm 63, 65, 89, 150, 218 



Cytosine 63, 142 



Dahlbomimis fuscipennis 306 



Dancoff's principle 50, 53, 111, 190, 192, 



298 

 Darwinian machines 188 

 Death, definition of 54 

 Decision theory 5 

 Decoding 6, 31 



Degenerative diseases, chronic 348 

 Denaturation 283, 292 

 — , of proteins 117,267,268,271, 274, 286, 



287 

 Deoxyribonucleic acid See DNA 

 Diabetes melHtus 342, 344 

 Diamino pimelic acid 71 

 Dictyosome 219, 222 

 Dielectric absorption 264 



— properties 263 

 Differentiation, capacity for 125 

 Dipeptides, combinations of 78, 82 

 Diphenyl picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) 249 

 Diploid survivorship 298, 301 



Direct action 253, 258, 272, 276, 300, 301, 



354 

 Disaccharide 212 

 Displacement congruence 376 

 Disulfide bond 116, 239, 255, 257, 258, 



259, 271, 278, 283, 286, 287 et seq., 292 

 Disulfide interchanges, radiation-induced 



283 et seq. 

 DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) 51, 52, 63, 70, 



76, 88, 101, 117, 138, 245, 269, 272, 282, 



298, 359, 394 



— inactivation of by radiation 269, 272 



— synthesis, steady-state flux of 142 



— Watson and Crick model of 51, 55, 63, 

 65,90, 142, 189 



Drosophila 53, 303, 304, 312 



— melatwgaster 293, 304, 307, 337 

 — • subobscura 307 



Earthworm See Lumbricoides terrestris 



E. coli See Escherichia coli 



Edestin 104 



Egg albumin See Ovalbumin 



Electrochemical potential 200, 261, 292 



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