SUBJECT INDEX 



Acridine dyos as mutagens, 224-225 

 Adenosine triphosphale-generating sj's- 



tem, 14 

 Adenjiate kinase, 12-13 

 Alkylating agents, 231-237 

 Amino acyl-RNA, 355-356 

 2-Aminoi)urine, 222-225 

 Analogs, base, 46-50 



substitution in DNA synthesis, 46-50, 

 219-227 

 Autoradiography, 73-77, 122-128 



molecular, 123-124, 127 



B 



Bacteria, 



cytology of, 142-147 

 Bacteriophage, 113-141 



distribution of parental DNA to prog- 

 eny, 138-140 



0X174, 119-122 



ghosts, 115 



HETS, 136 



maturation, 117-119 



organization of DNA, 114-117 



recombination in T2 and T4, 132-133 



structure of heterozygotes, 136-138 



transfer of parental DNA, 139-141 



T-2, 114-119, 123-125 



turnover of RNA in cell, 278-279 

 Base analogs (see analogs) 

 Bromodeoxyuridine, 



substitution for thymidine in healing 

 chromosomal lesions, 94 

 5-Bromouracil, 48-50, 220-222 



incorporation in copolymer, 49 



Carbon-14 as label for DNA, 18, 73 

 Chloramphenicol, effects on ribosome 



synthesis, 333 

 Chloromercuribenzoate, 55 

 Chromatid, 67-68 



sister exchangers, 82-85 

 Chromatography, 315-316 



separation of hemoglol)ins, 406-407 



Chromonema, 68 



Chromosome re])lication and jjrotein 



synthesis, 89-90 

 Chromosomes, 65-108 

 axial element, 72 

 du])lication, 73-77 

 exchanges, 82-86 

 giant, 68-72 

 lampbrush, 69-72, 107 

 labeling witli tritium, 73-77 

 mechanism of healing. 93-90 

 models of, 96-108 

 replication of, 72-82 

 reproduction of, 89-92 

 reunion of breaks, 92-96 

 sequences in duplication, 88-89 

 structure, 67-72 



of bacterial, 143-144 

 types of changes produced by radia- 

 tion, 90-92 

 Cistron, 214 



Coding, genetic, 282-286, 390-395 

 evidence for triplet, 284-285 

 from mutant hemoglobins, 434-435 

 from TMV, 509-517 

 Colchicine and chromatid exchanges, 83 

 Complementation, 214 

 Copolymers, 42 



Deamination by nitrous acid, 225-227 



Deoxyriboaldolase, 5 



Deoxycytidine, 3 



Deoxycytidine triphosphatase, 50 



Deoxycy tidy late hydroxymethylase, 11- 



12 

 Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 

 base alterations, 216 

 breakage b3' shear forces, 122, 130-131 

 change in state during replication, 184- 



185 

 changes in amount over the cell cj^le, 



154-158 

 control mechanisms and nucleotide 



pools, 159-160, 162-165 

 d-AT polymer, 40-45 



540 



