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Is asexual reproduction mitosis or meiosis?


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Reproduction:

It is the process through which an organism gives rise to offspring and serves as the defining characteristic of a living organism.

Asexual reproduction:

  1. It involves the single parent.
  2. Progenies produced are genetically identical to each other and the parent cell. All prokaryotes reproduce asexually.
  3. A mitosis is a form of asexual reproduction as the result of the cell cycle is two identical cells.

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