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Asexual Reproduction in Microorganisms
Asexual Reproduction in Microorganisms
- Prokaryotes such as bacteria divide into two identical cells by the process
of Binary Fission.
- Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms belonging to the domains
Bacteria and Archaea.
BINARY FISSION
- Is a type of asexual reproduction where a parent cell divides, resulting in
two identical cells, each having the potential to grow to the size of the
original cell.
– An organism grows and duplicates its genetic material then divides into two.
- In the process of binary fission, an organism duplicates its genetic material,
or DNA, and then divides into two parts with each new organism receiving
one copy of DNA.
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