Part A(Reviewing Binary Fission in Bacteria): The figure shows how bacteria reproduce through binary fission.---Drag the terms on the left to the appropriate blanks on the right to complete the sentences.1.) Binary fission is a form of _____ because a single individual is the sole parent and passes copies of all its genes to its offspring.2.) During binary fission, DNA replication begins at the _____ and continues all the way around the circular chromosome.3.) When DNA replication is complete and the bacterium has reached twice its original size, the _____ grows inward, dividing the parent cell into two daughter cells.4.) In theory, the two daughter cells are _____ each other and the parent cell.5.) However, mistakes made during DNA replication sometimes result in _____, changes to the nucleotide sequence of DNA.6.) The rapid reproduction and large population sizes of many bacterial populations mean that even a small mutation rate can lead to considerable _____.

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