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Fission

In general fission is a splitting or breaking up into parts.

In physics, nuclear fission is a process where a large nucleus such as uranium is split into two smaller nuclei.

In biology, cellular fission refers to the process whereby a cell divides. There are two types of cellular fission: mitosis and meiosis.

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