When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

Bacteria reproduce by cloning themselves through binary fission - a kind of asexual reproduction. In the right conditions, they can reproduce very quickly. Some species can replicate themselves in ...

During meiosis, the cells needed for sexual reproduction divide to produce ... undergo a type of cell division known as binary fission. In some respects, this process is similar to mitosis ...