In what way does prokaryotic fission resemble eukaryotic mitosis?

a. mechanism of chromosome movement
b. production of genetically identical descendant cells
c. chromosome attachment


d. production of a cytoskeletal framework for separating chromosomes
e. horizontal gene transfers


ANSWER: b

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