Question

differentiate between mitosis and meosis

Answer 1

Mitosis:provides for growth and replacement,
2 daughter cells
occurs throughout life
Meiosis:provides for development of gametes 
4 daughter cells
occurs during reproductive age 

Answer 2

Mitosis ( Equational Division)
It is type of cell division in which chromosomes of parent cells are duplicated and equally distributed into two daughter cells.Term mitosisis derived from Greek word "Mitos"means thread or fibril. It was first observed by Strasburger in plant cells (1870) and Boveri and Flemming in animal cell (1879).
It is divided into four stages or phases:Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase.


Meiosis (Reduction Division)
It is a process that allows one diploids (2n) cells to divide in a special way to generate haploid (n) cells in eukaryotes.The term meiosis (greek, meio -to lessen) was coined by Farmer and Moore (1905). The division was first coined by Van Benedin (1887), Strasburger (1888), Sutton (1900) and Winiwater (1900). Meiosis consists of two cell divisions which take place one after the other, during which the number of chromosome is halved.