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Why is it that there is no natural death in single-celled organisms like Amoeba and bacteria?

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In single-celled organisms like Amoeba and bacteria, the parental body itself divides into two parts and becomes daughter cells. Each of these divided cell rapidly grows into an adult organism. Therefore, the parent cannot be said to have died, it continues its life as daughter cells.
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