FISSION

Fission

1: The bacterium before binary fission is when the DNA tightly coiled.
2: The DNA of the bacterium has replicated.
3: The DNA is pulled to the separate poles of the bacterium as it increases size to prepare for splitting.
4: The growth of a new cell wall begins to separate the bacterium.
5: The new cell wall fully develops, resulting in the complete split of the bacterium.
6: The new daughter cells have tightly coiled DNA, ribosomes, and plasmids.]]

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fission

Noun

  1. The process whereby one item splits to become two.
  2. The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles; nuclear fission
  3. The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.

Verb

  1. To cause to undergo fission.
  2. To undergo fission.


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