How do the daughter cells produced by mitosis compare to the cell?

Answer 1

Daughter cells produced by mitosis will be genetically identical to their parent cell. Mitosis is the standard, ho-hum way that cells divide. It's how your skin cells make more skin, how your kidney cells make more kidney, how most bacteria reproduce, etc. The daughter cells will be a bit smaller, and they'll have about half the number of mitochondria and other organelles; they'll catch up to their parent cell in size and organelles if given a bit of time. But genetically (if you look at the chromosomes), they should be identical unless something went wrong.

The type of cell division where daughter cells will be genetically DIFFERENT from their parent cell is miosis (also spelled myosis), which is how humans and other creatures make sperm and egg cells.