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Okay, so this video looks into how cell division is important for enabling asexual reproduction in eukaryotic cells.
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Now, asexual reproduction is something we typically see in single -cell bacteria and archaea cells, but there's eukaryotic organisms both single and multicellular that go through asexual reproduction as well.
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So when we're looking at what this reproduction process looks like, this process still uses what we know for, for, reproduction, which is the process of mitosis.
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Now mitosis is the process of a cell growing over time and then doubling its dna such that that cell can split into two cells with identical dna.
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Now what's important about this process when it has to do with asexual reproduction is that there is no combination of genetic material.
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And that's what marks this asexecutive.
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Rather than sexual reproduction.
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The offspring of an asexual reproductive event are going to be identical to the parent, almost like a clone.
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So in a single -celled organism, we'll typically see this just with the process of mitosis.
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So you have a single -celled eukaryotic cell, and the first thing that it goes through is a growth phase.
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And this is a phase in which the cell gets larger and larger over time because it needs to prepare to split its two different offspring cells from the main body of the cell.
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So the cell is going to grow a bunch, and then it's going to go through its mitotic process, wherein all of its dna is duplicated.
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So now we have two copies, and then these components of the cell will then migrate to either side of the cell.
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And what we see next is a fissure that forms down the body.
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Of the cell and across that fissure the new membrane forms and you have resulting two identical daughter cells which are going to be very small compared to the parent cells since they just split off from it but they're going to keep growing and they'll recover and be back to their their former glory and their full adult phase now there's a few ways that multicellular reproduction can happen and you'll see this in a variety of different kinds of eukaryotic cells so one of these is a process known as budding and we'll see this process in things like corals and hydras.
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So what happens is you have the body of this coral or hydra and as it grows it starts to grow this little branch and because this is all part of the same body, this dna in this branch and the dna in the main branch is identical.
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All of your cells are reproducing from the same genomic information that you had when you were born...