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Variation in single celled organisms occurs only when there is a copying error (mutation).

The main function of sex is to produce limited variation.

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What happens when mitosis occurs?

One cell divides and creates two identical cells.


Why do cells come from other cells?

All cells come from other cells because we all started out as a single fertilized egg. As we under go miosis, the single cell divides and divides. The cells split and reproduces the DNA nad chromosomes and splits. The process goes on and on and never stops.


What is cellplate?

This occurs when a eukaryotic cell divides in mitosis or meiosis. The cell plate forms during telophase and is what divides the cytoplasm for the 2 daughter cells.


When a single cell is divides once by mitosis then what will be the product?

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What types of cells does mitosis occurs?

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What do you call the process where a single-celled protist asexually divides into two cells?

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What do you call the process where a single-called protist asexually divides into two cells?

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What is the type of cell division that occurs in reproductive cells and has to division?

Meiosis occurs in reproductive cells and is called reduction division because of presence of single set of chromosomes. It results in the formation of four daughter cells. Meiosis is a source of new genetic variation.


How does a hidden virus multiply?

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Cytokinesis in plant cells occurs when a cell plate divides the cytoplasm in half and eventually becomes the new cell walls?

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A form of asexual reproduction in a single celled organisms by which one cell divides into two cells of the same size?

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When is cytokinesis complete?

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