686 



Subject Index 



Parallelism 506 



Pasteur effect 95-96 



Pasteurella pestis 599 



Pasteurella tularensis 325, 326 



Partula saturnalis 177 



Peas, cyclophorasc activity in 412 



Peat, composition of 92, Fig. 3 



Penicillin 471 



Penicillinase 458, 462 



Pentose cycle 591 



Pepsin 289 



complexes formed from 475 



efifect on coacervates 468 

 Peptide bonds 221 

 Peptides, abiogenic synthesis of 145 



amino acids in 224, 235 



formation of 51, 257 



thermal pathways of formation of 258 

 Peroxidase 564, 565 



in oxidation of ascorbic acid 445-453 

 Petroleum, See also Oil 



as source of life 84 



formation of 74, 119, 179-180 

 asymmetric catalysts in 97 

 inorganic 85-86, 112 

 organic theory 91-93 

 thermal conditions 90-91 



geochemical associates of 89-90 



in Archaean era 85 



optical activity of 177 



vertical range of 87-89 

 Petroleum bacteria 85, 179 

 Petroleum beds, formation of 71 

 Phaeophytin 610 

 Phenylalanine, deamination of 540 



in bacteria 226 



in plants 410 



peptide bonds in 233 



synthesis of 193 



by ultraviolet light 153, 154 



transformation of 529, 530 

 Phosphates, assimilation of by protoplasts 



433-434 

 chemosynthetic production of 614 

 importance of in origin of life 44, 47, 51 

 incorporation in nitrate reduction 557, 



558, 559 



Phosphoric esters, as criterion of life 78 



Phosphorolysis 581 



Phosphorus anhydride, in atmosphere 109 



Phosphorylase 335, 336 



Phosphorylation, photosynthetic 413 



Photinus pyralis 622 



Photoassimilation, heterotrophic 521-525 



Photobacterium 622 



Photobiological processes, relation between 

 primitive and present day 619-625 



Photocatalysis, back-reactions in 614 

 development of 606-616 

 electron transfer in 609-612, 613, 615 

 energy transfer in 612-613, 615 



• mechanism of 609-613 

 Photochemical absolute asymmetric syn- 

 thesis 103 

 Photochemical asymmetric synthesis 100- 



loi, 102 

 Photopolymcrization 619-621 

 Photosynthesis 62, 64, 404, 409, 587, 619- 

 625, 630 



by ultraviolet hght 136-139 



development of 210-214 



evolution of 44-45, 51, 52 



evolution of enzymes and 207-214 



in bacteria 521-522 



of carbon compounds 516-518 

 Photosynthetic phosphorylation 413 

 Phototrophic nutrition, origin of 635-640 

 Phototropism 622 

 Phycobilins 409, 612 

 Phycocyanin 409, 410, 612 

 Phycoerythrin 409, 410, 612 

 Phyllophora 617 

 Piezo effect 95 

 Pig, corticotropin in 243 



cytochrome c in 242 



insulin in 242 



oxytocin in 243 



vasopressin in 243 

 Pigment, development of 608-609 



in photosynthesis 621 

 Pigment systems, and hydrogen transfer 

 613 



conjugation witli enzymes 613-615 

 Planets, atmospheres of, and origin of life 

 16-22 



biochemistry of 228 



life on 370 



origin of 67, 1 1 3 

 Planorbis 177 



Plant cells, biochemical structure and 

 function 404-407 



chemical composition of 407 



enzyme system in 411-413 

 Plant metaboUsm 645 



cytochrome oxidase in 564, 566, 567, 

 568 



enzymes in 563 



glucose in 566 

 Plants, ammonia fixation in 548 



carbohydrate metabolism in 564 



cyclophorasc activity in 411 



oxidase enzymic system in 564-569 



oxidases in 565, 566 



photochemical apparatus in 210, 212 



respiration in 562, 563, 564, 568 



symmetry and asymmetry in 175-178 

 Plastids 49, 50, 402, 403 



biochemical activity in 415 



chemical composition of 407 



invertase-protcin complex in 414 



proteins in 409 



structure of 500 



