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What is meant by asexual reproduction. List its any two different forms.

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Asexual reproduction defined as the production of offspring by single parent without meiosis , formation of gametes , fertilization and transfer of genetic materials between individual .

1) Fission .
2) Fragmentation.
1) Fission:- Fission may be defined as the splitting of unicellular organism into two or more than two separate daughter cells .
ex . Amoeba , Paramecium .

2) Fragmentation:- Some multicellular organism have simply body organisation . these organism r comprised of random collection of cells without differentiation of specialized tissues nd organs . such organism reproduce by Breaking of the I bodies into small pieces . Each of these pieces called fragment . these fragments grow into new individuals nd mode of reproduction is called fragmentation.ex Spirogyra



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