Difference Between Mitosis And Meiosis With Diagram. Mitosis involves the division of body cells while meiosis involves the division of sex cells. Meiosis means a lessening in greek.
Mitosis and meiosis are nuclear division processes that occur during cell division. Mitosis involves the division of body cells while meiosis involves the division of sex cells. The division of a cell occurs once in mitosis but twice in meiosis.
Meiosis means a lessening in greek.
Mitosis is the greek word for thread after the thread like chromosomes that can be seen under the microscope in dye stained cells during cell division. Meiosis on the other hand allows reproductive cells to divide twice to produce four non identical daughter cells each having half the genetic material of the parent cell. Another difference between mitosis and meiosis is that during mitosis there is only one cell. Two daughter cells are produced after mitosis and cytoplasmic division while four daughter cells are produced after meiosis.
