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  1. In biology, a form  of asexual reproduction,
  2. whereby a single-celled organism divides 
  3. into two smaller `daughter' cells. It can
  4. also occur in a few simple multicellular 
  5. organisms, such as sea anemones, producing
  6. two smaller sea anemones of equal size.
  7.