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| variation in traits such as body weight or height in which a series of types are distributed on a continuum, not grouped into discrete categories |
| a group of individuals or species having a common ancestry |
| binary fission | |
| —n | |
| asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells | |
binary fission n.
A method of asexual reproduction that involves the splitting of a parent cell into two daughter cells.
| binary fission
See fission. |
binary fission
asexualasexual reproduction by a separation of the body into two new bodies. In the process of binary fission, an organism duplicates its genetic material, or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and then divides into two parts (cytokinesis), with each new organism receiving one copy of DNA.
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