Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised)Kisieleski, Walter E.
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Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised)
Kisieleski, Walter E.
Biology; Radioactive tracers
_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.
Motion Pictures
_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 Productions for 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.
FOOTNOTES
[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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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