Question

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?

Answer 1

B) Mitosis is a process likely derived from binary fission, found in ancestral bacteria.

Step-by-step explanation:

Both the process of mitosis and binary fission are related in several ways. Both the process result in the production of two daughter cells which are identical to the parent cell. The similarities between these processes show that the eukaryotic organisms might have evolved the phenomenon of mitosis from the prokaryotic method of binary fission. As scientists claim that eukaryotes arise from prokaryotes, hence, based on this claim we can say that the process of mitosis evolved from the process of binary fission.