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- Vacuole
- Membrane-bound, fluid-filled sac within the cytoplasm of a cell.
- Vector
- (i) Any agent (living or otherwise) that acts as a carrier for
a pathogenic organism and transmits it to a susceptible host.
(ii) A physical quantity with a direction as well as a strength. - Veld
- Open pasture land in South Africa.
- Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM)
- An intimate and perhaps usually mutualistic association between a fungus and a plant root in which the fungus enters the host cells and also usually extends widely into the surrounding soil (cf. Ectomycorrhiza).
- Vital attributes (species)
- Properties of species that determine their place in a succession.
