Cyanobacteria
reproduce by either through asexual or vegetative methods and no sexual methods
are in existence because there are no meiosis and gamete formations.
The asexual
reproductive method involves the creation of thick walled cells named akinetes,
which are able to store food, and some form endogenous or exogenous spores.
Transformation, transduction, and recombination have been known to occur, but
conjugation has yet to be seen observed by cyanobacteria.
Vegetative
reproduction arises from fission, fragmentation, or by the formation of the
hormogonia. The unicellular form of the cyanobacteria display fission and the
multicellular form display fragmentation.
