Difference between mitosis and meiosis
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Mitosis is occurs in the somatic or body cells, while Meiosis is occurs in exclusively in the reproductive cells.
That means Mitosis occuring irrespective of whether the individual is a male or a female give rise to somatic cells, which are exact copies of the parent cells.
On the other hand Meiosis occurs in males and females giving rise to haploid sperm and egg cells respectively.
The process of Meiosis however has different names in both the sexes, due to the different cells produced as an end result, Meiosis is also referred to as over genesis that is the process of ovum production in females and spermatogenesis that is the sperm production process in males.
Another major difference is that Mitosis is used as a mode of asexual reproduction in lower organisms, while Meiosis helps in forming gametes for sexual reproduction.
Mitosis has only one cell division while Meiosis involves two successive cell divisions.
That simply means Mitosis is a single step cell division, while Meiosis is a two step cell division, and this results Meiosis having two phases namely Meiosis I and Meiosis II.
Mitosis produces two daughter cells, while Meiosis produces four daughter cells after completion of cell division.
One of the major difference between Mitosis & Meiosis is the chromosomal number of the daughter cells.
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