budding off
Growing then detaching
Budding off is a form of reproduction in which a new organism develops as an outgrowth from the parent, eventually separating to live independently.
Yeast cells and hydras reproduce this way.
The phrase extends to any splitting away from a larger entity: The department budded off from the main organization last year.
- breaking awaySeparating from a group
- going soloActing without partners
- mitosisNuclear division producing identical cells
- cytokinesisCytoplasmic division after mitosis
- branchingSplitting into separate directions
branching out · protuberance · daughter cells · stem cells · offshoot · organogenesis · stolons · embryogenesis · regeneration · divergence · derivation · tubercles · modularity · emergence · adaptation · symbiosis · rhizomes · asexual reproduction
budding offsexual reproduction
Two-parent genetic combination
meiosis · conjugation · fertilization · cross-fertilization · outcrossing
budding offmerging
Blending into one
fusing · fusion · coalescence · amalgamation · absorption
budding offreabsorption
Reclaiming filtered substances internally
atrophy · resorption · dying off · withering · regression