Question

What are two differences between mitosis and meiosis?

Answer 1

Meiosis:

1. It is the type of cell division where the parental cells divide into four daughter cells where the number of chromosomes will be half of the parental chromosomes.
2. In this, the daughter cells will be haploid.

Mitosis:

1. It is the type of cell division where the parental cells divide into two daughter cells where the number of chromosomes will be the exact number of parental chromosomes.
2. In this, the daughter cells will be diploid.

Meiosis	Mitosis
This process occurs mainly in the reproductive cells such as in germ cells of animals and plants. The daughter cells are haploid in nature. The crossing over occurs so the chromosomes can get mixed sometimes. The daughter cells formed will be four.	This process occurs mainly in the non-reproductive cells such as in vegetative cells like bone cells, epithelial cells, etc. The daughter cells are diploid in nature. The crossing over does not occur. The daughter cells formed will be two.