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SUBJECT INDEX 



Gibbs phase integral, 61, 69, 70 

 Gonyaulax polvedra, 119, 120, 134, 137, 

 138 



H 



Hamiltonian form of control equations, 



37 

 Hamiltonian function, 37 

 Hydrodictyon, 87 



I 



interaction, 



strong, 17, 19 



weak, 17, 19,90,91 

 invariant, 



for growing cells, 145 



integral, 8,33,48, 52 



measure, 8, 153 

 irreversible processes, 74, 94-97 



K 



kinetics of feedback repression, 26-28 



light, effect on oscillations, 142 



lily anthers, deoxyribonuclease in. 146 



limit cycle, 53, 133, 153 



linearized equations, 106 



linked loci, 44 



Liouville's theorem, 56, 57 



luciferase, 120 



luciferin, 120 



luminescence, 119 



M 



mean frequency of zeros, 101-108, 120 

 messenger ribonucleic acid, 3 



control equations for, 26-30 



mean life-time, in bacteria, 81 

 in higher organisms, 85 

 metabolic pools, 28, 29, 35 



and weak interaction, 58, 59 



oscillations in, 59 



storage capacity of, 29 

 metabolic system, 1 1 



microscopic parameters, estimation of, 



87-89 

 molecular control mechanisms, 3 

 molecular theory, 

 in biology, 1 

 in physics, 1 

 morphology and biochemical oscil- 

 lations, 146 



N 



natural selection, 2 



negative feedback, 3 



nesting of spaces and systems, 15 



neural organization, 123 



noise, biochemical, 9, 19, 56, 59, 60 



noise level, in bacteria, 82 



non-linear oscillations, 34, 35 



O 



operator locus, 23, 27 

 organization, laws of, 3, 152 

 ornithine transcarbamylase, 89 

 oscillations, 



in bacteria, 82, 83 



in chemical systems, 96 



in epigenetic variables, 34, 35, 85, 86 



in molecular concentrations, 5, 6, 20, 

 21 



in self-optimizing machines, 20 



in the metabolic system, 11, 12,83 



parasitic, 20 



parallel repression, 44 



Paramecium, 18, 83, 134 



parasitic oscillations, 20 



period of oscillations, 85-87, 108, 109, 



136, 137 

 phase integrals, 61, 69, 70, 1 13 

 phase space, 57 

 potential function, 78, 124 

 prey-predator oscillations, 17, 22, 68, 



122 

 probability density, 57 



of canonical ensemble, 61 

 proline pool, fluctuations in, 93, 94 

 protozoa, 83 

 puromycin, 137 



