Index[[Student version, January 17, 2003]] 513
chromatin fibers, 39c
chromosome, 35, 39c, 85 ,86c
polytene, 88, 88c
cilia, 40, 40c, 155
clathrate cage, 243, 244c, 245
Clausius, Rudolph, 74, 182
closed thermodynamic system, 186
clumping catastrophe, 231, 433
CMC,seecritical micelle concentration
coenzyme, 353
coion, 233
colloidal
particle, 99
suspension, 142 , 143
competitive inhibition,seeinhibition
complex fluid,seefluid
complex system, 337
composite state, 389
concentration, 19
condensation reaction, 42, 43c
conductance
perarea, 418 ,419c
resting, 461
conductivity, 418
electrical, 127 ,166, 451, 484
thermal, 166
conformational substate, 344
conformational substates, 333
continuity equation, 117
contour length, 303c, 303
convolution integral, 342
cooperativity, 317, 326
in bulk phase transitions, 317
in micelle formation, 282
of link orientations, 314
parameter, 322
correlation ratchet, 404
coulomb (unit), 16
counterion, 230 ,232c, 236
cloud, 231, 233c
coupled transport, 422
covalent bond
strength of, 242
creeping flow, 150
Crick, Francis, 15, 42c, 45, 57, 92
critical force
for DNA overstretching, 328
viscous, 147, 500
critical micelle concentration, 280c, 280 ,285c
crossing-over, 86c, 86
crowding agent, 224
curdling, 289
current
capacitive, 449, 467, 467c
electric, 16c, 19
cyclic AMP, 42
cyclic machine,seemachine
cyclic process, 6
cytoplasm, 35
cytosine, 41
cytoskeleton, 48
cytosol, 38
dalton (unit), 26
Darcy’s law, 161 ,229, 249
Debye length, 412
Debye screening length, 250 ,338, 496
decay constant, 122 , 196
deformation
bending, 302
extensional, 302
torsional, 302
degeneracy, 198
degree of angle (unit), 495
Delbr ̈uck, Max, 14, 82, 90, 91, 91c, 110, 351, 409
denaturation, 288, 288 , 290
bycold, 288
surface, 291
dendrite, 39 ,442, 477, 478c, 479
dendritic
spine, 41 ,52c, 476, 479
tree, 52c
density
charge, 19
mass, 19
number, 19
surface, 19
depletion
interaction, 221 ,222, 223c
zone, 221 ,222c
depolarization, 443
deprotonated form of a residue, 274
detergent, 278c
detergents, 285c
deterministic time evolution, 118
deviation
root-mean-square, or RMS, or standard, 69
device
molecular, 352
dielectric constant, 230 , 492
diffuse charge layer, 231
diffusing ratchet,seeratchet
diffusion, 116c, 120c, 136c
constant, 18, 104 ,107, 111c
constant (angular), 140
equation, 118 , 452
law, 105, 114, 118, 128
one-dimensional, 104
twoand three dimensional, 105, 128
diffusion constant
rotational, 140
dimensional analysis, 15
dimensional quantity, 17
dimensionless quantity, 16
dimensions, 15
dimer, 331 , 383
dinitrophenol, 421c
diploid cell, 84
dipole, 240
dipole interaction, 272
disorder, 7, 8, 10, 92, 98, 108, 152, 174, 174 ,176, 177,
181c, 182, 186, 187, 216, 224, 246, 262, 306,
340, 441
dissipative processes, 98
dissociation, 230, 271
constant, 272
distributed network, 451
distribution,seeprobability distribution
disulfide bond, 58, 357c
DMPC (dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine), 287
DNA, 33c, 39c, 45 ,53c, 59c, 110, 222c, 300
B-form, 45, 328
dissociation of, 273
duplex structure, 326
melting of, 326
reannealing, 327
replication, 161, 162c, 163, 356
stretching of, 310c
supercoiling of, 349
unzipping of, 328
Z-form, 349, 349c
DNA helicase, 162c, 163
DNA polymerase, 163
Donnan
equilibrium, 415
potential, 415
Doty, Paul, 320
DPPC (dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine), 44c, 44
drift velocity, 107
Drosophila melanogaster,86, 88, 88c
drunkard, 101c
DuBois Reymond, Emil, 410
duplex,seeDNA
duty ratio, 383 , 390
dwell time, 197 ,201c, 202
dynein, 51
E. coli,see Escherichia coli
effective segment length, 305
eigenvalue, 312
eigenvector, 312
Einstein relation, 108
Einstein, Albert, 19, 21, 22, 100, 108, 109, 127, 132, 133,
164, 171, 469
elastic response, 167
elastic rod model,seepolymer
electric field, 25
electric potential, 25
electrical double layer, 231
electrochemical potential, 262 ,413, 418, 427c, 428, 429,
431, 433
gradient of, 420
electrogenic ion pump,seeion pump
electrolyte, 237 ,251, 262
electron volt, 423
electronegativity, 271
electrophoresis, 275 ,276c, 349c, 354
electrophoretic flux, 125Page references of the form 999c refer to figure captions; bold references are the defining instance of a term.