Talk:Binary fission

message: It doesn't seem quite accurate that binary fission is restricted to prokaryotes.  For instance different species of yeast reproduce by binary fission or by budding (see the wiki article on yeast).  There is certainly a distinction to be made between cell division and reproduction but since this is an article about binary fission in general, it probably should not be restricted to prokaryotes.  For instance, the animation that was removed would be perfectly acceptable if it was made clear that it showed eukaryotic binary fission.  If previous editors have any comments, I'd love to hear them before starting to make changes.  
Blindrhino (talk) 23:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Mitosis is quite different. --agr 22:47, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Binary fission is a process of cell-division and reproduction used by prokaryotes, organisms that lack a nucleus.  The processes used by eukaryotes are mitosis and cytokinesis.  Past editors of this article have apparently confused binary fission with cytokinesis.  I've made a small start, and I'll probably come back to this, but the distinction needs to be clearly drawn so people don't add back all this stuff about protozoans and sea anemones undergoing binary fission. --arkuat (talk) 09:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone just emailed me about this image and mistake, and I uploaded a slight reworking.  Feel free to hunt me down if I neglect to check the talk pages as often as I would like to. Zab (talk) 10:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone needs to clean all of the eukaryotes out of this article 

message: Types of binary fission
Binary fission is mainly of three types with regard to the plane of division:
# Irregular binary fission: Occurs in amoebae. The plane of division of cytoplasm varies but is always at right angles to the elongated dividing nucleus.
# Longitudinal binary fission: Occurs in flagellates such as Euglena. The cytoplasm splits lengthwise, from forward to backward, forming two similar daughter individuals.
# Transverse binary fission: Occurs in ciliates such as paramecium. The cytoplasm divides transversely between two sets of nuclei, forming two dissimilar individuals. This is called bacterial fission.''
This is interesting and possibly truthy, but has to do with eukaryotes and not with the sort of organisms or organelles that reproduce via binary fission.
another:
Bacterial DNA has a relatively high mutation rate. This rapid rate of genetic change is what makes bacteria capable of developing resistance to antibiotics and helps them exploit invasion into a wide range of environments.
This is also interesting and true, but doesn't really belong in an article about binary fission.  --arkuat (talk) 10:33, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed confusing text: might be useful elsewhere

message: The illustration at the head of the article is okay, but is frustrating in a way similar to the animation discussed above. The lead illustration confusingly mentions cytokinesis, a term which is usually restricted to eukaryotic cell division, and not ordinarily used of prokaryotes.  --arkuat (talk) 08:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustration

message: Hello isn't binary fission just a form of asexual reproduction by which some single celled organisms reproduce. The genetic material is copied, and one cell divides into two individual cells that are each a copy of the original cell. Like Prokaryotes as bacteria reproduce by binary fission. I mean I am only 12, but that is what I was thought, and you guys are probably 4 * smarter than me but that's what I thought.
dont think like that  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.153.131.38 (talk) 17:15, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:   Binary Fission! 

message: Substituted at 09:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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