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Bacterial binary fission is the process that bacteria use to carry out cell division. Learn the steps of binary fission, including copying the bacterial chromosome and forming a new cell wall.

But it's also true that the bacteria around you—on your skin, in your gut, growing on your kitchen sink—are "cloning" themselves all the time! Bacteria reproduce by splitting in two via binary …

When bacterial cells replicate, there is a small chance the new bacterial cell will not be exactly the same as the original bacterial cell. We call these errors in the copied cell a mutation.

Prokaryotes reproduce through a cell division process called binary fission. Like mitosis in eukaryotes, this process involves copying the chromosome and separating one cell into two.

And in order to sneak in and let the bacteria do its thing while it's waiting, it's going to combine with the host's genetic information, so that the host really can't tell that it's there.

Bacterial binary fission is the process that bacteria use to carry out cell division. Learn the steps of binary fission, including copying the bacterial chromosome and forming a new cell wall.

Scientists have carried out detailed studies on the infection cycles of bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria (a type of prokaryote). The two primary modes of infection for …

Germs have nothing to do with the reproduction process. Those are germ cell and not germs. Germs cells are specialized cell that leads to the formation of gametes.

The lysogenic cycle: The phage infects a bacterium and inserts its DNA into the bacterial chromosome, allowing the phage DNA (now called a prophage) to be copied and passed on …