SUBJECT INDEX 



415 



Kinety 224 



Lactalbumin, a 86 



Lactogenic hormone 104 



Lactoglobulin, /5 80, 86, 104 



Lacto peroxidase 114 



Language 8,44,104,111,193 



L-cystine 284 



Late eiTects, from radiation damage 301 



LD50 332, 333 



Learning 392 



LET 269, 270, 279 et seq. 



Lethal bound, limit 298, 318, 326 



Leucine 70, 90 



Leucosin 115 



Leukemia 343, 345 



Life expectancy 333, 334, 344 



— span 312,331,334,342 

 Limitations, of information theory 192 

 Linear programming theory 5 

 Lipo-protein 212 



Liver, chicken 129 



— regeneration 148 

 Logical machine 37 

 Longevity 331 

 Lumbricoides terrestris 215 

 Lysine 70, 72, 90, 109 



Lysozyme, papaya lysozyme 80, 86, 107, 

 113 



Macrostate 118 



Malignant neoplasms See Cancer 



Markoffian, fluctuation process 320 



Mass action, law of 151 



Maximum likelihood estimate 213 



Maxwell's demon 120, 196 



Melanophore 80, 87 



Melanopliis differentia/is 215 



Membrane phenomena 197 



Membranes, exclusive 198 



— , indifferent 197 



— , responsive 198 



Memory 393, 394 



Message 30, 33 



— , genetical 5 1 



— entropy 52, 54, 298 



— sets 191 



Metabolism, purine 138 

 Methionine 70, 90 

 Methylcholanthrene 294, 309 

 Methyl xanthines 136 

 Micelle 109,218 

 Micro-organisms 101,131,208 

 Microsome 66, 132 

 Microstate 118 



Microtus agrestis 303 

 Microwave spectroscopy 242, 353 

 Mitochondrion 132,219 



Molecular energy 118 



— dissociation process 264 

 Molecules, irreversibly inactivated 120 

 Monosaccharide 212 

 Mono-DNP cystine 284 



Mono-2, 4-dinitrophenyl-L-cystine 284 



Morbidity 342 



Morphogenesis 218, 359 



Morse code See Code, Morse 



Mortality 317,319,342 



Mosaics, non-addressed 372 



— , pre-addressed 372 



Moth, Congolese (Anaphe maloiwyi) 87 



Motoneurons 157 



Mouse 293,304,309,333,337,351 



— , LAFi 294, 307 



— , R.F. 294, 307 



Mutagenesis 136 



— , chemical 145 



Mutagenic agents, chemical 136, 145, 309 



, DNA 137 



, RNA 137 



Mutagenic effects 355 



Mutagenicity 137 



Mutants, biochemical 300 



Mutation rate, spontaneous 58, 136, 141, 



145 

 Mutations 65, 71, 74, 84, 137, 298, 353, 355 

 — , point 55, 56, 146 

 — , recessive lethal 301 

 Myeloma globulin 86 

 Myoglobin 74, 80, 86, 104 

 Myosin 104,113 



Nebenkern 219 



Negentropy, rate of production of 199 

 Neoplasms, malignant See Cancer 

 Nerve fiber 153 



— membrane 201 



— optic 389 



- — protein 86 

 Nervous system 347 

 Neural connections 383 

 Neural network 372 



— systems 153 

 Neural thresholds 153 

 Neurospora 13 



Neuron (See also Motoneurons) 384, 389, 



393, 395 

 Nicotinamide 208 

 Nissl substance 222 

 Noise 31, 35, 51, 53, 165, 189, 281, 319, 



379 

 — , chemical 172 

 — , genetic 52, 189, 298, 309, 313 

 — , measures of 188 

 — , random Gaussian 320 

 — , "white" 55, 320 



