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Where does meiosis occur in animals?

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Mitosis happens everywhere in animals. Anywhere where new cells are being made mitosis happens. You can remember the difference between mitosis and meiosis by mitosis happens in your toes, meiosis just happens in ovaries and testes.

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11y ago

Growth requires cell division which depends upon Mitosis. So anywhere within any organism where growth occurs is where mitosis is also found.

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The above answer is quite correct, but I would like to add that the majority of mature cells in an adult are quiescent and do not undergo mitosis. Replacement cells tend to be generated by specialized stem cells located in specific niches that preserve the mitotic capability of the stem cells. For example, most cells in the blood are terminally differentiated and post-mitotic (they do not divide). However, in the bone marrow, hematopoietic stem cells are preserved to continuously generate new blood cells.

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14y ago

In animals, meiosis occurs only when gametes (sperm, eggs) are formed.

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Mitosis takes place in the cytoplasm of an animal cell.

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9y ago

Mitosis occurs in the individual cells of the animals body. This is because the cells reproduce using mitosis, meiosis or binary fission.

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13y ago

Yes. The process of cytokinesis during telophase differs between plants and animals, but beyond that mitosis is the same in both kingdoms.

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Yes. The process of cytokinesis during telophase differs between plants and animals, but beyond that mitosis is the same in both kingdoms.

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Mitosis occurs in the animals nucleoulus

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nucleas

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