1. SC.912.L.16.15
Binary Fission

2. What is binary fission?
Asexual reproduction for prokaryotes, specifically bacteria

3. Daughter cells are identical copies
Binary fission
Daughter cells are identical copies
Chromosome
Plasma membrane
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Neither mitosis nor meiosis occurs in prokaryotes

4. - Binary fission generally involves the separation of a single cell into two more or less identical daughter cells, each containing, among other things, at least one copy of the parental DNA.

5. Binary fission
E. coli
DNA
cell wall

6. How is it different from mitosis?
Mitosis is a means of making new cells in a eukaryotic multicellular organism (like skin cells)
Since bacteria are unicellular, they do not need to make new cells, they only need to reproduce
The phases of binary fission and mitosis are very similar