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IX.—The Validity of the Bunsen-Roscoe Law in the Production of Mutations by Radiation of Extremely Low Intensity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

S. P. Ray-Chaudhuri
S. P. Ray-Chaudhuri
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh.
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The Bunsen-Roscoe law states that the effect of radiation is always the same regardless of the variation in the intensity or in the time of radiation as long as the product of the two is kept constant. This law holds true for many ordinary physico-chemical reactions over a wide range of intensities. The present investigation was undertaken to test the validity of the Bunsen-Roscoe law by studying the frequency of (1) sex-linked lethal mutations and (2) translocations in Drosophila melanogaster at much lower intensities of radiation than those previously tried.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , 1944 , pp. 66 - 72
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1944

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