Protozoa Binary Fission Asexual Reproduction

Binary fission in the protozoa Stylonychia. Watch as this organism splits apart via binary fission and one becomes two in this amazing process that lasted approximately 12 minutes but seen here condensed to just over 4 minutes of real time. If you only ever saw this in text books, here it is now magnified and in color right before your very eyes! This small sequence can also be viewed as a teaching aid in the biology classroom.