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Published: 26.07.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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  • Essays 'Difference Between Asexual and Sexual', 1.
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Asexual reproduction is not a "sexual" situation: the new organism is generated thanks to a somatic (non sexual) and totipotent (which has kept all its genetic potentialities) cell. The generated organism is identical to the parental cell: the reproduction proceeding is
named mitosis (one mother cell gives rise to two daughter cells identical to the
mother cell). …

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