Cyanobacteria - Reproduction
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Description:
The reproductive characteristics of cyanobacteria are as follows −
- Mostly reproduce by asexual methods.
- Asexual methods include binary fission, fragmentation, endospores etc.
- Typical sexual reproduction involving formation and fusion of gametes is absent.
- Recombination can occur by three types of parasexual methods- conjugation, transformation and transduction.
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