spec. in Biology. The division of a cell or organism into new cells or organisms, as a mode of reproduction.

The property of being scissiparous; a tendency to split into two distinct parts.

the process of fissiparous reproduction.

Biology. = fission, n.

= fissiparation n.

the attribute of being fissiparous.

Biology. Cell-division, segmentation.

A breaking or separation into fragments; spec. in Biology separation into parts which form new individuals.

= schizogenesis n.

Reproduction by gemmation or budding.

Biology. The division of a cell nucleus. Cf. fission, n. 2. Now rare.

fissiparous generation.

The transverse splitting of a cell or organism as a mode of reproduction; transverse fission.

the division of a cell into cells having dissimilar hereditary tendencies; opposed to homœokinesis.

the division of a cell into cells having similar hereditary tendencies.

the division of a cell into more than two daughter cells; spec. = schizogony n. at schizo-, comb._form affix 1.

the division of a cell or organism into two (see fission, n. 2).

A mode of reproduction in certain protozoans, in which the organism divides into two or more multinucleate daughter cells.