Fragmentation (reproduction)
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Fragmentation in multicellular or colonial organisms is a form of asexual reproduction or cloning, where an organism splits into fragments upon maturation, creating a new individual if the split part
Corals can be multiplied in aquaria by attaching "frags" from a mother colony to a suitable substrate, such as a ceramic plug or a piece of live rock. This aquarium is designed specifically for growing coral colonies from frags.
Asexual reproduction
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Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes. The offspring that arise by asexual reproduction from either unicellu
Asexual reproduction in liverworts: a caducous phylloid germinating
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reproducing by budding
Vegetative plantlets of mother-of-thousands, Bryophyllum daigremontianum (Kalanchoe daigremontiana)
Linckia guildingi "comet", a starfish regrowing from a single arm