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binary fission

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binary fission
n.
A method of asexual reproduction that involves the splitting of a parent cell into two approximately equal parts.

binary fission
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells

binary fission
See fission.
Translations
binary fission n (Bio) → scissione f binaria


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In the intestinal tract of insects, the absorbed trypomastigotes undergo transformations into spheromastigotes and epimastigotes that divide by binary fission.
The cells reproduce by binary fission, divide in a single plane, and there is no capsule: these characteristics together are diagnostic for the genus Synechococcus (Rippka et al.
National Laboratory indicate that this rare process, known as neutronless binary fission, occurs only 1 to 10 times per 10,000 fission events.
 
 
 
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