An organism that reproduces using binary fission, a type of asexual reproduction, creates an identical copy of a cell when

An organism that reproduces using binary fission, a type of asexual reproduction, creates an identical copy of a cell when the cell's DNA replicates and the cell divides, giving each cell an identical copy of DNA

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the cell's DNA replicates and the cell divides, giving each cell an identical copy of DNA.

Explanation:

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.