All living organisms on earth grow, maintain homeostasis, and undergo cell division. Two types of cell division are binary fission and mitosis. Which claim most accurately describes the relationship between mitosis and binary fission?
A) Mitosis and binary fission are identical processes.
B) Mitosis is a process likely derived from binary fission, found in ancestral bacterial
C) Binary fission and mitosis likely evolved separately since they have few similarities.
D) Binary fission only occurs in yeast and fungi, mitosis only occurs in plants and animals.