416 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Noise-and-redundancy-theorem 188, 189, 



298 

 Non-addressed systems 373, 388, 396 

 Norleucine 71 



Nuclear hyperfine structure 244 

 Nucleic acid metabolism, enzymes of 140 



— acid residues 191 



— acids {See also DNA, RNA) 18, 138, 144, 

 209, 242 



Nucleolus 219 

 Nucleotide pairs 51, 52 

 Nucleotides 8, 18, 65, 70, 76, 91, 298 

 Nucleus 219 



Odd-coin problem 233, 401 



OH radicals 258, 259, 284 



Operations analysis 5 



Order 268, 276, 362 



Orderliness, living things feed on 117, 189 



— , problem of destruction of 188 



Organ, control 191 



Organ, target 191 



Organelle decision trees 221 



Organelles 218 



Organization 36, 39, 218, 262 



Organ-specific transfer 129 



Origin of life 278 



Ornithine 71 



Output information 32 



Ovalbumin (egg albumin) 80, 1 14, 128, 212, 



268, 272, 289 

 — , peptides 128 

 Ovum, fertilized 51,63 

 Oxytocine 66, 69, 80, 87 



p-Xmmo benzoic acid 208 



Pantothenic acid 208 



Papain 80,86,113 



Parallelism 381 



Paramagnetic resonance {See Electron-spin 



resonance) 

 Paramecium 220-225, 306 

 Paschen-Back effect 246 

 Pathology of aging 293 

 Pathology of radiation damage 293 

 Pattern perception 371, 374, 388 

 Pauli principle 243 

 Pellicle unit 224 

 Peniculus 225 



Pepsin 80,104,113,116,268 

 Pepsinogen 87 

 Peptide bonds 263 

 Peptides 215,242,252 

 — , X-irradiated 253 

 Peroxidase (milk) 268 

 Phenylalanine 70, 90 



Philodina citrina 309, 310 



Phosphoglucomutase 1 1 6 



Phosphorylase 86, 144 



Phosphorylated derivatives 138 



Phosphoserine 70, 72 



Physiologic variables 319,322 



Plasmagenes 219 



Plasmapheresis 148 



Ploidy 312 



Point mutation 55, 56, 146 



Poisson distribution 83, 107 



Polarization, electronic 266 



— , orientation 267 



— , secondary-bond 266 



— , vibrational 266 



Polypeptides 273 



Polypeptide structures, minimum entropy 

 117 



Polystyrene, X-irradiated 256 



Pooling, effect of 24 



Praseodymium chloride 172 



Pre-addressed 373 



Preservation, of cells, tissues at low tempera- 

 tures 178 



Probabilities, conditional 28 



— , unequal 13 



Probability density 247 



— distribution 231,298 



, joint 320 



Problem-solving process 234 

 Prolactin 80 



Proline 70,72,90 

 Protamine 74 



Protein 18, 202, 204, 209, 212, 242, 263, 

 273, 283, 287 



— and peptide chains 87 

 — , composition of 90, 101 



— precursors, incorporation into chick 

 embryos 128 



Proteins, denaturation of, reversible 117, 



267, 288 

 — , genetic determination of 52, 73 

 — , homologous 74 

 — , inactivation of 262 et seq., 287 

 — , ionized 257 

 — , radiation damage in 253, 262 et seq., 



287 

 — , terminal residues of 77 

 Protein specificity 18, 50 



— structure 103,111,267 

 and language 105, 1 12 



— synthesis 65, 125, 135, 144, 298 



, mechanism for 65, 125 



Prothrombin 86 



Proto-RNA 89 

 Pseudo-holo-enzyme 204 

 Psychology 191,231 

 Punctuation mark 8, 69, 91 



