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Grade 12Botany

How does binary fission differ from multiple fission?

Profile image of Pawan Prajapati
5 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Harshit Singh
5 Years ago
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Binauy Fission: An organism is divided into two individuals. Mitotic division takes place resulting in two identical individuals or daughter cells. e.g., Amoeba.
Multiple Fission:Mitotic division takes place. The nucleus a ii diumrepeatedly to form a number of equal sized and similar individuals, e.g.,

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