332
SUBJECT INDEX
Uncoupling agents, in aerobic respiration,
235-36
United States, flora, 56
Unity of Biochemistry, 33
of Descent, 5, 33
of Type, 33
Urea, insulin transfer action on, 194
Urodele, 19
V
Vacuolar membrane, 272
Venezuela, flora, 57
Vertebrates, centromeres in chromosomes, 113-14
chromosome fusion, 123-24
and germ layer theory, 18, 18n.
and organizer concept, 8
Vespa, tropotaxis, 169-70
Viola, 91
Vitamin B
1 2
, 232
Vision, in animal orientation, 149-50
in insect orientation, 168-69, 171
in trail-following, 157-58, 161, 163
W
Warramunga, sex chromosome mechanism, 134
Wasps, parasitic, host-finding, 152-56
Water: absorption, in chicory roots, 262
effect on respiration in potatoes and
beets, 247
osmotic movement, 260-62
uptake, active, 260-61
and dinitrophenol, 259, 265
metabolic, 254-55, 261, 264, 270
and regulation of respiratory rate,
250-62
Weevils, polyploidy, 133
Wheat, basal respiration, 263
cytochrome oxidase, 286
germ, TPNH, 285
salt accumulation, 268, 269
Wood anatomy, 59-60
Wound respiration, 238-50
X
Xylem, anatomy, 60
secondary, 59, 60
Xylose, and phosphorylation, 198
D-Xylose, insulin transfer action on, 194
and red cell permeability, 198
Y
Yeast, 236
metabolism, 238
Pasteur effect, 234
Yorkiella picta,
chromosomes, pairing segments, 137
sex chromosome mechanism, 134
Ζ
Zauschneria, evolution of polyploid complex, 91-92