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Definition of fission

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Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..

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Accrementition :: Accrementition (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds..

Leptothrix :: Leptothrix (n.) Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals..

Schizogenesis :: Schizogenesis (n.) Reproduction by fission.

Pseudofilaria :: Pseudofilaria (n.) One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinae.

Fission :: Fission (n.) A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts..

Fissipara :: Fissipara (n. pl.) Animals which reproduce by fission.

Protophyte :: Protophyte (n.) Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division..

Schizophyte :: Schizophyte (n.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not..

Scissiparity :: Scissiparity (n.) Reproduction by fission.

Strobile :: Strobilation (n.) The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian..

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Fissiparism :: Fissiparism (n.) Reproduction by spontaneous fission.

Meroblastic :: Meroblastic (a.) Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic..

Individual :: Individual (n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission..

Monogenesis :: Monogenesis (n.) That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction..

Diffission :: Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.

Sporid :: Spore (n.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw..

Fissipation :: Fissipation (n.) Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.

Schizomycetes :: Schizomycetes (n. pl.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement..

Fission :: Fission (n.) A process by which certain coral polyps, echinoderms, annelids, etc., spontaneously subdivide, each individual thus forming two or more new ones. See Strobilation..