Essential Cell Biology 5th edition

Index
I:23
water-splitting enzyme (photosystem II)
483–484, 489
Watson, James 174–175, 202, 204
wavelength and microscope resolution 6
weak acids 69F
weak interactions 47–48
see also noncovalent bonds
Wee1 inhibitory kinase 618F, 625
whales 223F
whole-genome duplication 298, 306
whooping cough 547
Wilkins, Maurice 175
Wingless gene 730–731
wire models 124, 126
Wnt pathway and cell proliferation
714–715, 726, 730–731
wobble base-pairing 248
worms, nematode see Caenorhabditis
wound healing 535, 559, 573, 644, 698
X
X chromosomes 179, 191, 192F, 277,
291
X-inactivation 191, 192F, 277, 291
X-ray diffraction/crystallography
DNA structure elucidation 175
lysozyme structure 143
nucleosomes 186F
principles of 128F, 161, 168F
protein structure elucidation 61
Rubisco 168F
Xenopus spp. 157F, 306, 615, 616F
xeroderma pigmentosum 215
Xist noncoding RNA 291
Xpd gene 357F
Y
Y chromosomes 179, 567, 652
yeasts
Candida albicans 324F
cell-cycle control system 616
cell shapes and sizes 2
as eukaryotes 16
mating factor 533, 534F, 545
occasional sexual reproduction
654
protein similarity experiments
30–31
Z
Schizosaccharomyces pombe 30–31,
616
sexual reproduction in 654
temperature-sensitive mutants 520,
521F
see also budding yeasts; fission
yeasts; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
zebrafish
CRISPR system 359
embryonic development 32, 710
gene multiplication 306
as model organism 32, 354
Zellweger syndrome 506–507
zinc ions 149
zona pellucida 663
zygotes 652, 663