what is mitotic, meiotic, mitosis, meosis division?
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Mitosis produces 2 diploid cells. The old name for meiosis was reduction/ division. Meiosis I reduces the ploidy level from 2n to n (reduction) while Meiosis II divides the remaining set of chromosomes in a mitosis-like process (division). Most of the differences between the processes occur during Meiosis I.
Answer: Mitotic division or mitosis is the process by which somatic cells (2n) divide to produce two diploid daughter cells (2n). The chromosome content and the phenotype of the two daughter cells remain equal to that of the mother cell. Hence it is also called equational division. Mitosis helps in overall growth of the organism, asexual reproduction (in unicellular organisms) and in regeneration (in some animals like starfish and crab).
Meiotic division or meiosis is the process by which germ mother cells (2n) divide to produce four haploid gametes (n). Since the chromosome content of the mother cell is reduced to half in the daughter cells, meiosis is also called reductional division. It helps in sexual reproduction.
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