<em>The botulinum toxin, a poison produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum (C. botulinum), is common in soil and exists in untreated water. It can survive in these environments as a resistant spore. Foodborne botulism is caused by consuming foods containing the botulinum toxin.</em>
Asexual reproduction produces <span>a direct clone of the parent.
The other terms are related to sexual reproduction.
Asexual reproduction or asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction, which (as opposed to sexual reproduction) corresponds to the capacity of living organisms to multiply alone, without a partner, without involving the fusion of two gametes of opposite sexes.
The mechanism of the reproduction is by </span>mitosis, <span /><span>budding or </span>scissiparity.<span>
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