1. Reproduction a process whereby living things produce more living things All living organisms need to do it!!

2. Asexual Reproduction  Just one parent involved  Offspring identical-no diversity  Many microscopic organisms reproduce in this way

3. 5 types of asexual reproduction  1) Binary Fission  2) Spore Formation  3) Budding  4) Vegetative propogation  5) Regeneration

4. Binary fission *is the normal method of reproduction among bacteria. *It means splitting into 2 EQUAL new organisms.

5. Conjugation may precede fission In conjugation, DNA passes from one bacterium to another through a bridge of cytoplasm. In fission, after conjugation, the offspring are different than the original parent BUT identical to each other.