Now, there are four major types of asexual reproduction processes that we're going to discuss in this lecture. We're going to examine budding, binary fission regeneration as well as parthenogenesis. And let's begin by briefly discussing the process of budding. So budding is one form of asexual reproduction in which we replicate the genetic information, the DNA of the parent cell, and then we enclose that DNA into a small portion of the cytoplasm in the cell membrane that came from the original parent cell. And that's exactly why the daughter cell that we produce as a result of budding is much smaller in size but contains the same exact genetic information as our parent cell. So basically, we begin with the parent cell.