Biology
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Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 52, Problem 2U
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Reproduction is a biological process of the formation of offspring for their parents. It is a fundamental feature of life. The reproduction occurs in two forms, asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction. The asexual reproduction includes binary fission, budding, parthenogenesis and so on.
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