How does mitosis and meiosis differ?

Answer 1

Meiosis is the process where sex cells are formed. They are diploid in the beginning and end up being haploid. Once cell dividing in meiosis will form 4 daughter cells.

Mitosis is the process by which normal body cells reproduce. The start out as diploid cells and end up as diploid cells. One cell dividing in mitosis will form 2 daughter cells.

Mitosis is the more common form of cell reproduction!

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Answer 2

Meiosis produces four haploid daughter cells from one parent cell as it goes through two divisions to get half the amount of DNA. Mitosis results in to two diploid daughter cells. The daughter cells are all different due to occurrences such as law of independent assortment and law of segregation and crossing over where the tetrads of two chromatins swap genetic material. In addition meiosis is the division of sex cells and mitosis is the process in which all the other cells divide. Hope this helps a bit.

Answer 3

The basic difference is that mitosis results in the production of two daughter cells that are identical to the parent cell, whereas meiosis results in the production of 4 daughter cells that differ from the parent cell in chromosome number and genetic components. There are also differences in the stages that occur during each process.

Answer 4

Mitosis is the process by which a cell divides to produce two new cells with identical sets of chromosomes, and the same number of chromosomes to the parent cell. The main purpose for this is to produce new cells for growth and repair, replacing old tissues Fo it to take plcae cells enter a cycle of growth and division; this is repeated until the cell is no longer able to divide.

Meiosis on the other hand only takes place in the testes and ovaries. It is a special type of cell division that produces gametes (also known as sex cells) for sexual reproduction

Answer 5

· Mitosis produces new cells with genetic material identical to the original cell (diploid cells);

used in asexual reproduction, growth, repair, and development.

· Sex cells are produced by meiosis. (egg and sperm)(haploid cells)

Answer 6

the amount of chromosomes in a cell. meiosis is used in sexual reproduction and mitosis is just making more cells. chromosomes in a human after meiosis=24; mitosis=48.

Answer 7

At the end of meiosis four haploid cells are produced whereas in mitosis two cells produced have the identical genome of parent cell.