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From: crown@dukempd.UUCP (Rick Crownover)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Fission Limitations?
Keywords: Fission, Reproduction
Message-ID: <677@dukempd.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 01:10:02 GMT
Organization: Duke University Physics Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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Posted: Mon May 23 21:10:02 1988


	Is there any reason (I might suggest genetic diversity)
why higher organisms could not reproduce by fission?  In a
novel by Heinlein, "Double Star," he depicts martians as a
plant like race (but sentient) which reproduce this way.  My 
question is: could it work?
                             Aloha,  Rick

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