A group of students were debating whether unicellular bacterial cells that reproduce using the process of binary fission are act
ually performing mitosis and meiosis. Select the student with the best argument. Poppy: A bacterial cell is going to undergo mitosis so that it can create offspring with double the number of chromosomes. The offspring with the double amount of chromosomes will then divide with mitosis creating four daughter cells with triple the amount of chromosomes.
Zabriya: The process of binary fission and meiosis are basically the same process with the same end result, a daughter cell with half the number of chromosomes. Unicellular organisms are not going to undergo mitosis because mitosis doubles the number of chromosomes.
Gauge: The process of binary fission is similar to mitosis because the results are identical cells, but binary fission always results in new identical organisms with the same chromosomes as the parent.Meiosis is not performed because the offspring would have half the number of chromosomes.
Dacy: A bacterial cell is going to do both mitosis and meiosis. The bacterial cell will divide using the process of mitosis and then it will divide again using meiosis creating four daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent bacterial cell.
