SUBJECT INDEX 



absorption, anisotropic, 85 



light, 252 



ultraviolet, 219, 226 

 achromatin, 219 

 actin, 352 



active elimination, 198 

 active group, 208 

 active plasma, 181 

 actomyosin, 352 

 adenoid activity, 198 

 adenosine triphosphate, 358 

 aerogel, iii 

 aggregation, 159, 330 

 agon, 236 



aleurone grains, 193, 326 

 aliphatic compounds, 34 

 amino acids, 132, 330 

 amylase, 314 

 amylopectin, 310 

 amy lose, 310 

 angle of scattering, 90 

 anisotropic absorption, 83 

 anisotropic diffraction, 83 

 anisotropy, optical, 85 

 anucleal, 224 

 apo-enzyme, 208, 235 

 apposition growth, 290, 316 

 arginine, 340 

 aromatic compounds, 36 

 assimilation, unit of, 261 

 atomic distances, 29, 30. 

 autocatalytic reproduction, 



241 

 auto-reproduction, 240 

 auxins, 209 

 axolemma, 364 

 axon, 363 



backbone spacing, 336, 365 

 bast fibres, 105 

 beaded chains, 93, 176 

 Bergmann-Niemann rule, 



biochemistry, 7 

 biomorphology, 7, 372 

 biosomes, 174 



birefringence (cf. double re- 

 fraction), 83, 85, 114 

 form, 85, 254 

 intrinsic, 88, 298, 308 

 layer, 255 

 lamellar = layer 

 of flow, 90, 298 

 platelet = layer 

 rodlet, 84, 114, 309, 321 



block structure, 316 



blood corpuscles, red s. ery- 

 throcytes 



bones, 350 



boundary layers, 197 



cap-plasmolysis, 184, 197 

 carboxylase, 236 

 carotenes, 249 

 carotenoids, 246 

 carrier hypothesis, 233 

 cell elongation, 281 

 cell extension, 282 

 cell polarity, 190 

 cell wall, cutinized, 293 



meristematic, 279 



micellar textures, 95 



primary, 279 



secondary', 279, 290 

 cellobiose, 39 

 cellodextrines, 62 

 cellulose, 59, 62, 97, 280 

 cellulose frame, 286 

 centrifuge microscope, 194 

 centromeres, 222, 224 

 chain lattice, 34, 36, 69 

 chain length, 61 

 chains, beaded, 93, 176 

 chitin, 130, 301, 308 

 chlorophyll, 246, 248, 252 

 chloroplastin, 248, 258 

 chloroplastin symplex, 247 

 chloroplasts, 243 

 cholesterol, 138, 266 

 choline, 138 

 chondrioconts, 173 

 chondriome, 173 

 chondriosomes, 173 



chromatid threads, 225 

 chromatin, 219 

 chromidia, 176 

 chromocentres, 220 

 chromomeres, 225 

 chromonema theor)', 225 

 chromonemata, 225, 241 

 cbromophily, 219 

 chromoprotein, 248, 249, 



258, 265 

 chromosomes, 217, 224, 231, 



234 

 coacervation, 18 

 coagulation, directed, 183 

 co-enzyme, 208, 235 

 cohesion, 31 



molar, 32 

 cohesive bonds, 146, 185 

 cohesive forces, 31, 32, 185 



Van der Waals, 31 

 cohesive pressure, 42 

 cohesive tension, 42 

 coleoptile, 287 

 collagen, 307, 345 

 collagen fibres, 348 

 collagen group, 367 

 colloid chemistry, 4 

 colloid particles, 8, 15 

 colloid solutions, 64 

 colloids, 15 



corpuscular, 74, 81 



globular, 126 



reticular, 74, 81 

 composite bodies, 82 

 condensation, 59 

 connective tissue, 345 

 constellation, 37 

 contractility, 134 

 contraction, muscular, 358 



of protoplasm, 187 

 co-ordination, 28, 29 

 corpuscular colloids, 73, 8 1 

 cotton fibres, 307 

 crossed lamellar systems, 



506 

 crystal lattice, 26, 69, 97 

 crystal structure, 26 



