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| Vacuole | A cavity or vesicle in the protoplasm of a cell, containing a watery fluid. |
| Vat | Usually a fermenting or storage vessel. |
| Vector | The agent (e.g. plasmid or virus) used to carry new DNA into a cell. |
| Vegetable Oil | Any oil from plant origin. |
| Vent Hole | A small hole to allow air to escape. |
| Virulence | Ability to infect or cause disease. |
| Virus | A submicroscopic organism that contains genetic information but cannot reproduce itself. To replicate, it must invade another cell and use parts of that cell's reproductive machinery. |
| Viscosity | The resistance offered by a fluid (liquid or gas) to flow. The viscosity is a characteristic property and is a measure of the combined effects of adhesion and cohesion. |
| Vitamin | Any one of a group of constituents of most foods in their natural state which are essential for normal nutrition. |
| Volatile | In chemistry, any one of those acids which can be distilled from an Acid aqueous solution at atmospheric pressure, such as acetic, and butyric acid. Fixed acids such as tartaric, phosphoric, etc., cannot be removed by distillation. |
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