Labelled diagram of Binary fission in Leishmania
Labelled diagram of Binary fission in Leishmania: Leishmania is a parasite that causes black fever with spots on body parts and skin. Some unicellular organisms show a somewhat more organized body, such as leishmania, which has a whip-like structure at one end of the cell. In such organisms, binary fission occurs in a fixed orientation relative to these structures. Other unicellular organisms, such as the malaria parasite, plasmodium, divide into many daughter cells simultaneously by multiple fissions. In binary fission of leishmania cells divide themselves vertically and the nucleus divides into two parts. Leishmania also affects the liver and bone marrow. In leishmania binary fission occurs in six steps in which the parent cell divides into two separate nuclei. This process involves nucleus division and cytoplasmic division, and then the division of the parent cell into daughter cells. The membrane extends horizontally across the centre of dividing cells. The cytoplasm separates into two equal parts, each containing a nucleus.
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