BIOLOGY
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Chapter 51, Problem 1U
You have discovered a new organism living in tide pools at your favorite beach. Every so often, one of the creature’s appendages will break off and gradually grow into a whole new organism, identical to the first. This is an example of
a. sexual reproduction.
b. fission.
c. budding.
d. parthenogenesis.
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