592 



SUBJECT INDEX 



B virus, local lesion count assay of, 335 

 Bacillus, transduction in, 558 

 Bacillus cereus, 120, 144 

 8-azaguanine and, 126 

 penicillinase and, 145-146 

 Bacillus megatherium, 143, 145 

 cytochromes of, 81 

 hexosamine lactyl ether and, 24 

 nuclear body of, 33 

 nuclei isolation and, 38 

 protoplasts, protein synthesis and, 94- 



95 

 synchronous culture , polymer synthesis 

 and, 107 

 Bacteria, nuclei of, 33 

 Bacterial viruses, see Bacteriophage 

 Bacteriophage, 17 

 attachment of, 8 



defective prophages and, 558-559 

 deoxyribonucleic acid, 5-6, 195, 459- 

 460, glucose in, 5 

 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in, 5 

 desiccation and, 388 

 formaldehyde inactivation and, 400 

 general structure of, 460-461 

 heat inactivation and, 384-385, 386 

 infection, enzyme actiol^ and, 24 

 infection initiation and, 346 

 Klebsiella pneumoniae and, 24 

 local lesion count assay 



efficiency of plating and, 334 

 efficiency of plating coefficient and, 



335 

 Poisson formula and, 334-335 

 multiplication 



infectious deoxyribonucleic acid and, 



554-555 

 nature of phage material and, 553- 



554 

 phage genome function and, 555- 



558 

 phage maturation and, 558-559 

 replication kinetics and. 555 

 neutralization of, 534-537 

 nitrogen content of, 459 

 nucleic acid components of, 466-467 

 organic peroxide inactivation and, 409 

 osmotic shock and, 391-392 

 peroxide radiomimetic effects and, 

 368-369 



pH, stability and, 389 

 phosphorus content of, 459 

 photoreactivation and, 26-27, 110 

 precipitin reactions and, 531 

 protein 



amino acid content of, 461^62 

 heterogeneity of, 463-466 

 radioactive phosphorus decay and, 



381-382, 554 

 recombination units in, 133 

 reproduction of, 9 

 Rhizobium, 379 



photoreactivation and, 377 

 ribonuclease inactivation and, 414 

 safranine and, 418 

 soft X-rays and, 373-374 

 staphylococcus, photoreactivation 



and, 377 

 streptococcus, sterilization inactiva- 

 tion and, 382-383 

 tannic acid and, 418 

 temperate A, X-ray inactivation and, 



372 

 T-even deoxyribonucleic acid, 5-hydro- 

 xymethylcytosine in, 20-21, 192 

 transduction and, 558 

 T-series, 4, 184 



electron microscopy and, 300, 341 

 enzyme origin and, 25-26 

 high pressure inactivation and, 364 

 homogeneity of, 298, 299 

 hydrolase of, 22-23 

 photodynamic inactivation of, 380 

 sonic irradiation and, 363 

 surface inactivation of, 363-364 

 urea inactivation of, 406^07 

 UV inactivation and, 374, 375, 376, 



377, 379, 380 

 X-ray inactivation of, 367-370 

 Betapropiolactone, viral inactivation 



and, 412 

 Benzoic acid, viral inactivation by, 407 

 ^-galactosidase 



Escherichia coli and, 130-131, 141, 144- 



145 

 stability of, 121-122 

 Biological research, objectives of, 8-9 

 Birefringence 



electric, rotational diffusion and, 238- 

 239 



