Examples of fission in the following topics:
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- Binary fission is the method by which prokaryotes produce new individuals that are genetically identical to the parent organism.
- Prokaryotes, such as bacteria, propagate by binary fission.
- Due to the relative simplicity of the prokaryotes, the cell division process, or binary fission, is a less complicated and much more rapid process than cell division in eukaryotes.
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- Prokaryotes reproduce asexually by binary fission; they can also exchange genetic material by transformation, transduction, and conjugation.
- Reproduction in prokaryotes is asexual and usually takes place by binary fission.
- Binary fission does not provide an opportunity for genetic recombination or genetic diversity, but prokaryotes can share genes by three other mechanisms .
- Besides binary fission, there are three other mechanisms by which prokaryotes can exchange DNA.
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- Animals may reproduce asexually through fission, budding, fragmentation, or parthenogenesis.
- Fission, also called binary fission, occurs in prokaryotic microorganisms and in some invertebrate, multi-celled organisms.
- Some unicellular eukaryotic organisms undergo binary fission by mitosis.
- Some sea anemones and some coral polyps also reproduce through fission .
- Coral polyps reproduce asexually by fission, where an organism splits into two separate organisms.
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- Commercial nuclear reactors release large amounts of thermal energy (heat) during radioactive decay of fission products.
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- Prokaryotes on the other hand undergo binary fission in a process where the DNA is replicated, then separates to two poles of the cell, and, finally, the cell fully divides.
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- Unicellular organisms, such as bacteria and yeast, naturally produce clones of themselves when they replicate asexually by binary fission; this is known as cellular cloning.
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- Bacteria are prokaryotes that reproduce by prokaryotic fission.
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- Mitochondria divide independently by a process that resembles binary fission in prokaryotes.
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- In addition, like mitochondria, plastids derive from the binary fission of other plastids.
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- Some brittle stars, such as the six-armed members of the family Ophiactidae, are fissiparous (divide though fission), with the disk splitting in half.