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How can a amoeba separate into two amoeba?
Amoeba is a genus of protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopods, and is consider as unicellular organism, they are found in sluggish waters all over the world, both fresh and salt, as well as in soils and as parasites and Some can even live in the bodies of animals, the amoeba is Greek word meaning (change).

The amoeba usually reproduces asexually by a process called binary fission (splitting in two), in which the cytoplasm simply pinches in half and pulls apart to form two identical organisms (daughter cells). This occurs after the parent amoeba's genetic (hereditary) material, contained in the nucleus, is replicated and the nucleus divides (a process known as mitosis). Thus, the hereditary material is identical in the two daughter cells. If an amoeba is cut in two, the half that contains the nucleus can survive and form new cytoplasm. The half without a nucleus soon dies.


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