Subject Index 



Acer. Platanus 578 



Acetabularia 361-362, 365 



Acetic acid, formed by electrical discharge 



125 

 Acctylorthrinine 578 

 Achatinella mustelina ill 

 Acipenser sturio 249 

 Acoustic energy, in initiation of chemical 



processes 172-173 

 Actinomyces globisporis slreptomycini 325, 



326 

 Actinomycetes 629, 630 

 Acyl-coenzyme A 401 

 Adenine, effe« on proteinases 471 

 in bacteria 324, 325, 328 

 inhibition of by ribonucleic acid 471 

 Adenosine diphosphate 347, 348, 349, 354, 



355 

 Adenosine monophosphate 346, 347, 349, 



354> 355 



in protein synthesis 365, 366 

 Adenosine triphosphate 349, 355, 585 



in protein biosynthesis 462 



in protein synthesis 364 



in the incorporation of amino acids into 

 proteins 279 



synthesis of 358, 359-36o 

 Adenylic acid 324, 326, 328, 351, 359 



abiogcnic synthesis of 149 

 Adolase, effect of deoxyribonucleic acid 



471 

 Aerobacter aerogenes 325, 326, 332 

 Aerobiosis, evolution from anaerobiosis 



585-592 

 transition from anaerobiosis, hydrogen 

 metabolism in 593-604 

 Age, effect on cysteine content, 572 

 Aggravation, theory' of 266 

 Alanine, composition of 249 

 deamination of 540, 541 

 in assimilation of ammonia 547 

 in bacteria 226 

 in plants 410 

 in protein synthesis 219 

 peptide bonds in 233 

 synthesis of 144, 193, 536, 54^; 624 

 by electrical discharge 125, 128, 130, 



155. 156, 282 

 by ultraviolet hght 138, 153, 154 

 in B. subtilis 547 

 /.'-Alanine, formed by spark discharge 125, 

 128, 129, 130 



Alanyglycinc, formation of 257 

 Alcaligenes faecalis 348, 590, 591 



dioxyribonucleic acid composition of 

 325, 326 



ribonucleic acid composition of, 326 

 Alcohol fermentation 595 

 Aldehyde oxidase 564 

 Aldehydes, formed by electrical discharge 

 127, 129, 130 



formed by ultraviolet light 131, 132, 137 



hydrolysis of 128-130 

 Aldolase 289 

 Algae 616-617, 651 



amino acid composition of 410 



on primaeval earth 34 



photocatalysis in 612 



proteins in 409 

 Allantoic acid 551, 578 

 Allantoin 512, 551, 578 

 Alpha-particles, chemical effects of 57, 58 

 Aluminium 80 



Amide groups, structure of 221 

 Amide N, in plants 410 

 Aminoacetonitrile, formation of 189 



polymerization of 189 

 Amino acids, abiogenic synthesis of 140- 

 149 



action of pyridoxal enzymes on 531-532 



amylase synthesised from 461 



and synthesis of chlorophyll 643, 644, 



645 

 assimilation of ammonia and 547, 54S, 



549 

 biosynthesis of 528 

 composition of 249 

 deamination of 539-542 

 D-forms 226 



effect of light on dextro- 97 

 formation of in fore-protein 192-195 

 in Aspergillus niger 577 

 in bacteria 225-228 

 in collagen 236 

 in corticotropin 235, 236 

 in cytochrome c 242 

 in fibroin 236 

 in fossils 241 

 in haemoglobin 245, 508 

 in hypcrtensin 243-244 

 in insulin 235, 236, 242, 290 

 in intermedin 247 

 in peptides 235, 236 



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