Now, other organisms, and this includes both unicellular as well as multicellular organisms, undergo a second method of reproduction known as asexual reproduction. In asexual reproduction, the offspring that is produced contained genetic information that came directly from a single parent cell. And that's exactly why, for the most part, the offspring have the same exact genetic information as our parent sell. 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.