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What is reproduction?
The biological process by which organisms produce offspring to continue the species
What is asexual reproduction?
Production of offspring from a single parent without fertilisation
Name the types of asexual reproduction.
Binary fission, budding, fragmentation, spore formation, vegetative propagation
What is binary fission?
Division of a single organism into two equal halves. e.g. Amoeba, bacteria
What is budding?
A new organism grows as a bud on the parent and separates. e.g. Hydra, yeast
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