SUBJECT INDEX 



Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations. 



abnormal abdomen in Drosophila, 72 



abortion, 106, 243 



absorbency, 302, 312, 314, 315, 345 



achondroplastic (chondrodystrophic) dwarfism, 230, 



242 

 acridine, 356, 362, 363, 368, 401 

 activation, 176, 430 

 Activator (Ac), 2\5, 360 

 adaptive value (see fitness, biological) 

 adenine (A), 284, 291, 296, 297, 304, 306, 337, 371, 



401, 402, 403, 441 

 adenosine, 430, 448 



adenosine triphosphate (ATP), 320, 321, 441 

 adenylosuccinase, 284, 290-29/ 

 adolescence, 234 



age, 72, 106, 130, 147, 201, 245, 249, 336, 341 

 agglutination, 70, 340 

 air, 178,275 



albinism, 32, 34, 49, 63, 68, 277, 414 

 alcapton (homogentisic acid), 275, 276 

 allele, 10, 185, 191-195, 287-291, 395 

 iso-, 65, 214, 239 

 multiple, 35-36, 62-65, 191, 198 

 allopatric, 255 

 America, 252 

 amino acid, 69, 231, 262, 276, 281, 285, 332, 395, 



406, 431, 435, 441 

 amorph, 210, 371 



amphiploidy (allopolyploidy), 143, 255, 258, 259 

 anaphase, 17, 18, 25, 26, 28, 29, 370 

 anemia, 36, 69, 70, 234 



sickle cell, 70, 242, 269, 287, 289, 290 

 aneusomy, 214 

 Angstrom unit (A), 286 

 anlage (imaginal disc), 265, 272 

 annelids, 94, 95 

 anthranilic acid, 376 

 anthropology, 253 

 antibiotics, 244, 284 



antibodies and antigens, 34, 62, 68, 340, 421 

 Antirrhinum (snapdragon), 65 

 antiserum, 35, 340, 375 



apricot eye color (vv, apr), 62, 122, 191, 204, 21 1 

 arginine, 285, 287 

 Arizona, 253, 254 

 Arrowhead inversion, 253, 254 

 Artemia (water shrimp), 140, 317 

 arthritis, 275 



457 



Ascaris, 140, 197, 198, 213 



ascospore and ascus, 121, 123, 283, 291 



Asia, 252 



Aspergillus, 193 



assay, 384-385, 404 



aster, 257 



asynaptic gene in com, 198, 213 



ataxia, 34 



atmosphere, 441 



atom, 177,247, 303 



attached-X's, 121, 122, 191, 192 



autopolyploidy, 140 



autosome, 81, 101 



auxotrophy, 333, 349-354, 350, 356, 440 



azaguanine, 337 



Bacillus, 341 



backcross, 43, 44, 82, 11 1 



bacteria, 214, 222, 312, 329-iJ5, 332, 369 



conjugation in, 349-354 

 bacteriophage (phage, 0), 296, 304, 374-380, 382- 

 405, 429^30, 448 



lambda or 434, 378-380, 388, 390, 391 



PI or P22, 375, 376 



pro-, 375, 378, 390, 391, 392 



T series, 307, 311, 336-338, 353, 382-388, 393-i97, 

 448 



XI 74 or SI 3, 311, 325, 347, 384, 406, 444 

 balanced lethals, 163, 164-165, 207 

 balancers (halteres), 193, 194 



Bar (B) or Bar-like eye, 186, 187, 188-190, 206, 207 

 Basic technique, 204, 205, 206 

 base, organic, 295 

 bean plant, 1 

 benzene, 294, 295 

 biochemistry, 69, 173, 266, 269 

 biophysics, 269 

 biotin, 281, 349-354 

 birds, 12, 84 (see also chicken) 

 bithorax (bx), 193, 194, 195 

 bivalent, 24, 25 

 black body color (b), 116 

 Blendor, 358, 362, 374, 383 

 blood, 69, 275 

 blood eye color (wm), 62 

 blood type or group, 34, 62, 234 



ABO, 35, 36, 49, 75, 252, 253 



MN, 35, 49, 68, 75 



Rh (Rhesus), 36, 75 

 bobbed bristles (bb), 114, 208, 210 

 bone, 95, 247, 275 

 Bonellia, 95 



Brachyury (Brachy) (T), 266-268 

 brain, 69 



branched track method, 40, 42 

 bridge-breakage-fusion-bridge cycle, 151, 152 

 brown eye color (bw), 272-274 

 Brownian movement, 150 

 buff eye color (w''0, 62 

 cabbage, 259, 260 

 caff"eine, 337 

 calcium chloride, 384 



