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Bacteria

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The Evolution of Bacteria

One bacterium is one cell. Prokaryotic means that they don't have organelles or little sub containers within their cell. Their DNA is generally one circular chromosome of a few megabases, which is relatively small compared to like multicellular organisms. Bacteria reproduction is very weird. They reproduce asexually so they just ploop binary fission and divide into two.

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