Prokaryotic cells, which include bacteria, undergo a type of cell division known as binary fission. This process involves replication of the cell's chromosomes, segregation of the copied DNA ...

New research from Konstantinidis and collaborators further challenges this notion, suggesting that not only do ... Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary ...

As organisms age, their cells accumulate damage ... Indeed, it was long thought that bacteria and other organisms that reproduce via binary fission do not age at all. This was because binary ...

In other words, how do bacteria stay similar?” said Konstantinidis, the Richard C. Tucker Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Bacterial and other microbes are ...

Bacteria, just like any other living organism, will do what ... fission. Binary fission occurs when one single-celled organism, in this case a bacterium, divides into two identical cells known ...

Although eukaryotes and prokaryotes both engage in cell division, they do so in different ... (which include bacteria) undergo a type of cell division known as binary fission.

Jon explains how bacteria grow and reproduce by binary fission. Students could make models of bacterial cells out of balloons. They could label them with the parts of cells and include relevant ...