Animal asexual reproduction fragmentation, Fragmentation is the division of a person into parts, followed by regeneration. If the animal can be fragmented and the fragments are large enough, a new individual will arise from each component. Fragmentation can occur as a result of inadvertent injury, predator harm, or as a natural form of reproduction. A unicellular creature breaks up in fission, resulting in the production of two daughter organisms. Coral colonies and sponges naturally fragment and reproduce. This approach is used by several annelids and flatworms. The names orchiectomy, laparotomy, and budding are used when the splitting occurs as a result of specific developmental processes. The animal divides at a certain point in architomy, and the two halves reconstruct the missing organs and tissues. The splitting does not occur before the development of the tissues to be lost. The animal may acquire furrows at the zone of splitting prior to splitting. The headless fragment must grow a new head from scratch. The process is known as fissiparity in echinoderms. Through autotomy, certain organisms can purposefully reproduce in this manner. During the larval editing stages, this procedure is increasingly popular. Most sea anemones reproduce through fragmentation in a number of ways, including longitudinal fission, in which the original anemone splits across the middle to make two equal-sized anemones, and basal laceration, in which small pieces of the animal separate from the base to form new anemones.