
thumb|Saccharomyces cerevisiae reproducing by budding
thumb|Saccharomyces cerevisiae reproducing by budding
Budding or blastogenesis is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site. For example, the small bulb-like projection coming out from the yeast cell is known as a bud. Since the reproduction is asexual, the newly created organism is a clone and, excepting mutations, is genetically identical to the parent organism. Organisms such as hydra use regenerative cells for reproduction in the process of budding.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).