Reproduction in bacteria

Bacteria can reproduce both by asexual and sexual method. So it is said reproduction in bacteria as

1)     Asexual reproduction

2)     Sexual reproduction

1)     Asexual reproduction

          Bacteria can reproduce asexually by simple fission and binary fission method. Both fissions takes place during favourable climate.

The whole process can be grouped into three steps. The whole process can be grouped into three steps. They are

a)     Depletion of genetic material (DNA)

b)    Separation of DNA into newly formed two independent cells.

c)     Cytokinesis .

Since bacteria donot have spindle fibre so the two daughter cells formed may or may not contain equall loofs of DNA. So some time vinary fission result in the formation of cell with out nucleoid. And another cell containing two nucleoid. The genetically identical population of bacteria produced from asexual reproduction from a single parent is called clone.