Q: What's the term for a piece of an organism breaking off and forming a new organism?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Fragmentation occurs when a piece breaks off from a parent organism. Then the piece develops into a new organism. Sea stars, like the one in Figure below , can reproduce this way. In fact, a new sea star can form from a single “arm. ”.

 Choices:

- depletion

- improvization

- extinction

- fragmentation


A:
fragmentation