Question

Differentiate between budding and binary fission

Answer 1

Binary fission and budding are two variations of asexual reproduction found in bacteria and fungi, respectively.

Binary fission is mostly found in prokaryotes. Budding is mostly found in eukaryotes. The main difference between binary fission and budding is that during binary fission, the parent organism is divided into two daughter organisms by evenly separating the cytoplasm whereas, during budding, a new organism is formed from the existing organism by sprouting out. The parent identity is thus retained. In binary fission, the cytoplasm divides evenly whereas in budding cytoplasm divides unevenly.