What is the main Difference in meiosis and mitosis?

Answer 1

The first answer is correct,

I'll add this though, Mitosis occurs once in a cells life, and occurs in all cells, makes 1 cell into 2.

Meiosis: occurs only in germ cells, IE: sperm and egg,
This makes 1 cell into 4 cells in meiosis parts 1 and 2.

Answer 2

mitosis -- the division of a cell's nucleus. Along with cytokinesis (the division of the rest of a cell), mitosis results in a parent cell dividing into two daughter cells. The genetic information within each of these daughter cells is identical.

A human cell contains 46 chromosomes..


Though the genetic code of a human being is contained within 46 chromosomes, only half of this number exists within the cell of a sperm or egg. If the cells didn't have half, a fertilized egg would contain 92 chromosomes and be untenable. Meiosis, a type of cell division specific to reproduction, avoids this by halving the number of chromosomes in a cell.

Answer 3

at the end of mitosis you will end up with two identical daughter cells which have the full number of human chromosomes . the term for this diploid.
at the end of meiosis, gametes are produced. these gametes will each have half of the normal number of chromosomes (haploid).

Answer 4

meiosis is cell division that occurs only in cells that give rise to sex cells and also a second form of cell division, mitosis is cell division that occurs in nonsex cells and produces 2 daughtersthat are identical

Answer 5

you end up with 2 identical diploid daughter cells in mitosis for every parent cell
in meiosis, you end up with 4 unique haploid daughter cells for every parent cell.

Answer 6

mitosis is the replication of normal body cells such as those like skin cells
Meiosis is the replication of sex cells, your sperm and egg.