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Amoeba is considered as immortal due to its clever reproduction strategy . Justify the statement

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Amoebais divided by binary fission in which a parent cell produces two equally half daughter cells and each daughter cell grows into an adult. There is no natural death in these organisms. There is no remains of parent body cell and parent cannot be said to have died. In fact, after binary fission parent starts living as two daughter cells. That is why,Amoebais considered as immortal.

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