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multiple fission
noun
Biology.
- fission into more than two new organisms.
multiple fission
noun
- zoology asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms, esp sporozoans, in which the nucleus divides a number of times, followed by division of the cytoplasm, to form daughter cells
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of multiple fission1
First recorded in 1910–15
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The article describing these findings titled, "A Cell-Based Model for Size Control in the Multiple Fission Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii," was published on November 9, 2023, in the journal Current Biology.
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Ligni�res has observed a kind of multiple fission in the stomach, several very minute bodies, consisting mostly of chromatin, being formed, which may serve for endogenous reproduction.
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