binary fission

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Understand how pathogenic bacteria can cause botulism, typhoid, cholera, and pneumonia

Understand how pathogenic bacteria can cause botulism, typhoid, cholera, and pneumonia

Many prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria reproduce by the process of binary fission.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Escherichia coli bacteria undergoing cytokinesis in the final stage of binary fission (scanning electron micrograph; magnified 21,674 times).

Escherichia coli bacteria undergoing cytokinesis in the final stage of binary...

Janice Haney Carr/CDC

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