398 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Bacteriophage 



as cellular organelles and, 193-195 

 as organisms and, 192-193 

 as virus and, 195-197 

 attachment reaction 



medium influence and, 214 



noncellular siu-face and, 215 



rate and, 216-217 



reversibility and, 212-213, 232 



temperature influence and, 213-214 



tryptophan requirement and, 214-215 

 chemical components 



composition and, 206 



deoxyribonucleic acid and, 206-207 



protein and, 206-207 



purification and, 205 



structural units and, 207 

 Coccobacillus acridiorum and, 1 87 

 composition 



components and, 205-207 



component properties and, 208-210 



shape and, 204^205 



size and, 204-205 

 crossing-over and, 292, 297, 310 

 deoxyribonucleic acid, 5-hydroxy- 



methylcytosine in, 53, 253-254, 255, 



257, 259, 262 

 deoxyribonucleic acid release, invasion 



and, 230-231,233 

 enzyme action, invasion and, 228-230, 



233 

 fine structure genetics 



deletions and, 308-309 



function imits and, 309-310 



negative interference and, 310-31 1 



rll system and, 307-308 

 functional differentiation and, 263-265 

 group matings and, 292-293 

 head antigen and, 210 

 heterozygotes, deoxyribonucleic acid 



molecule interaction and, 314 

 host-virus relationship 



cellular organelles and, 1 93-1 95 



infections and, 197-198 



lysogenic bacterium and, 190-191 



as organism and, 192-193 



origin of, 191-192 



pathogenicity of, 198-200 



proviral phase and, 190-191 



vegetative phase and, 189-190 



as virus and, 195-197 

 incomplete 



adsorption and, 249-251 



morphology and, 252-253 



phage specific nucleic acid and, 253- 

 254 



precipitation and, 249-251 



sedimentation and, 249-251 



serum -blocking power and, 251 

 infection, initiation of, 203-233 

 infectivity and, 194, 197-198 

 ^X174, infectivity survival and, 381 

 injection and, 204, 21 1-212, 263-265 

 intracellular multiplication of, 237-275 

 intracellular multiplication, comparisons 



and, 270-274 

 irradiation, target theory and, 355-357 

 lambda 



chemical composition of, 206 



infective particles of, 205 



purification of, 205 

 life cycle, constitution of, 191 

 mating event 



heterozygotes and, 296-299 



radioactive tracer experiments and, 

 299-302 



reciprocal recombinants and, 294-296 

 mating kinetics 



close markers and, 306-307 



general assumptions and, 302-303 



mating process and, 304-306 



mutant distribution and, 303-304 



recombinant distribution and, 307 

 Micrococcus sp. and, 187 

 morphology 



components and, 205-207 



component properties and, 208-210 



shape and, 204-205 



size and, 204-205 

 multiple matings in, 290-293 

 mutations 



host-range mutants and, 284-285 



plaque-tjrpe characters and, 282-284 

 origin of, 191-192 

 parental nucleic acid transfer and, 265- 



269 

 partial -replica formation in, 294, 300 

 pathogenicity and, 194, 198-200 

 phenotypic variations 



host-controlled variationand, 312-31 3 



