Basic Processes

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Basic Processes

Reproduction is defined as the production of one or more individuals of a given kind of organism by a process generation or propagation, sexual or asexual. Different organism reproduce in different ways, but the known methods of reproduction are broadly grouped into two main types, sexual and asexual. Sexual reproduction typically requires the involvement of two individuals or gametes, one from each opposite type of sex. Asexual reproduction is the process by which an organism creates a genetically similar or identical copy of itself without a contribution of genetic material from another individual.

Bacteria reproduce asexually by a method referred to as binary fission in prokaryotic cells and mitosis in all others. That is the spot where...