Question

Difference between fission in amoeba and plasmodium

Answer 1

Both amoeba and plasmodium reproduce asexually by fission. But the difference is that amoeba undergoes binary fission. i.e. amoeba divides to produce two daughter amoebae whereas plasmodium undergoes multiple fission .i.e. many simultaneously by a single organism.

Answer 2

Both Amoeba and plasmodium reproduce asexually by the method of fission but the main difference is that Amoeba reproduce by binary fission and plasmodium reproduce by Multiple Fission process.

In binary fission that occurs in amoeba the parent organism divides itself into two daughter cells and it occurs in a particular axis.

The process or the method of Multiple Fission is the one in which several daughter cells originate from the parent organism simultaneously and it occurs in definite orientation.

Apart from plasmodium organisms like yeast and malarial parasites also reproduce by the method of multiple fission.