Scientific American, 205 (September 1961). This is a special issue on the living cell. The two articles cited below are of particular interest:
Liquid Scintillation Counting: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Northwestern University, August 20-22, 1957, C. G. Bell, Jr. and F. N. Hayes (Eds.), Pergamon Press, Inc., New York, 1957, 292 pp., $10.00.
Atomic Energy Research: Life and Physical Sciences; Reactor Development; and Waste Management, A Special Report of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission (December 1961), Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402, 333 pp., $2.25.
Radioisotopes in the Service of Man, Fernand Lot, National Agency for International Publications, 317 East 34th Street, New York 10016, 1958, 82 pp., $1.00.
Science and Cancer, M. B. Shimkin, Public Health Service Publication No. 1162, Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402, 1964, 137 pp., $0.60.
The Cell: Structural Unit of Life, 10 minutes, sound, color or black and white, 1949, Coronet Films, Inc., 65 E. South Water Street, Chicago, Illinois 60601.
Continuity of Life: Characteristics of Plants and Animals, 11 minutes, sound, color or black and white, 1954, Audio-Visual Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405.
DNA: Molecule of Heredity, 16 minutes, sound, color (No. 1825), black and white (No. 1826). 1960, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., Wilmette, Illinois 60091.
The Science of Genetics, AIBS Secondary School Film Series, No. 13280, 25 minutes, sound, color, 1962, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 330 West 42nd Street, New York 10036.
Available for loan without charge from the AEC Headquarters Film Library, Division of Public Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545, and other AEC film libraries:
Tracing Living Cells, Challenge Film No. 11, 29 minutes, sound, black and white, 1962. Produced by Ross-McElroy Productionsfor the National Educational Television and Radio Center under a grant from Argonne National Laboratory. This nontechnical film demonstrates some of the uses of radioisotopes in the study of cell division and in medical therapy.
The Eternal Cycle, 12½ minutes, sound, black and white, 1954. Produced by the Handel Film Corporation. This nontechnical film illustrates the use of radioisotope tracers in biological research and is suitable for intermediate- through college-level audiences.
Chromosome Labeling by Tritium, 15 minutes, sound, color, 1958. Produced by the Jam Handy Organization for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. This technical film discusses the advantages of tritium over other radioisotopes as labeling material in autoradiography.
A is for Atom, 15 minutes, sound, color, 1953. Produced by the General Electric Company. This nontechnical film explains the structure of the atom, natural and artificially produced elements, stable and unstable atoms, principles and applications of nuclear reactors, and the benefits of atomic radiation to biology, medicine, industry, and agriculture. It is suitable for elementary- through high-school audiences.
[1]An organism is a complete living plant or animal.[2]Metabolism is the sum of the life-sustaining activities in a living organism, including nutrition, production of energy, and synthesis (building) of new living material.[3]Morphologists are biologists specializing in the structure of organisms or in the study of whole organisms. Biochemists, by contrast, study chemical reactions of biological materials.[4]This is not to be confused with a cell nucleus. This word was borrowed from biology for atomic theory, however.[5]An exception is the hydrogen atom, which has no neutron in its nucleus.[6]Mev is the abbreviation for million electron volts.[7]A concept for which James D. Watson of the United States and Francis H. C. Crick of England shared a Nobel Prize in 1962.[8]The study of tissues.[9]There are additional, more subtle metabolic events that lead to the synthesis of DNA, but they are not important in this discussion.
[1]An organism is a complete living plant or animal.
[2]Metabolism is the sum of the life-sustaining activities in a living organism, including nutrition, production of energy, and synthesis (building) of new living material.
[3]Morphologists are biologists specializing in the structure of organisms or in the study of whole organisms. Biochemists, by contrast, study chemical reactions of biological materials.
[4]This is not to be confused with a cell nucleus. This word was borrowed from biology for atomic theory, however.
[5]An exception is the hydrogen atom, which has no neutron in its nucleus.
[6]Mev is the abbreviation for million electron volts.
[7]A concept for which James D. Watson of the United States and Francis H. C. Crick of England shared a Nobel Prize in 1962.
[8]The study of tissues.
[9]There are additional, more subtle metabolic events that lead to the synthesis of DNA, but they are not important in this discussion.
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