Cellular Reproduction is the process by which all living things produce new organisms similar or identical to themselves. This has to happen because if a species were not able to reproduce, that species would quickly become extinct. Reproduction consists of a basic pattern: the conversion by a parent organism of raw materials into offspring or cells that will later develop into offspring. The reproductive process, whether asexual or sexual always involves an exchange in hereditary …showed first 75 words of 507 total…

…showed last 75 words of 507 total…begins to reappear. After mitosis is complete, cytokinesis occurs, cytokinesis is the process in which a cell's cytoplasm is split into two equal parts, therefore causing the parent cell to split into two separate cells. Mitosis is a process that guarantees better cellular work. The two new cells will carry out the same functions and cellular processes as the parent, providing that the two cells will carry out twice as much as the original cell.