List the main differences between meiosis and mitosis.

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Mitosis	Meiosis
1. Equational division. Chromosome number remains the same in the daughter cells.	1. Reduction division. Chromosome number is resuced to half in the daughter cell.
2. Occurs in somatic cells	2. Occurs in germ cells.
3. Occurs in both sexually and asexually reproducing organisms.	3. Occurs only in sexually reproducing organisms.
4. No crossing over takes place.	4. Crossing over takes place during pachytene stage.
5. Prohase is simple and not divided into sub stages.	5. Prohase I of meiosis I is complex and has 5 stages.

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Find examples where the four daughter cells from meiosis are equal in size and where they are found unequal in size.

Analyse the events during every stage of cell cycle and notice how the following two parameters change.

1. Number of chromosomes per cell.

2. Amount of DNA content (C) per cell.

Why is mitosis called equational division?

Distinguish anaphase of mitosis and anaphase I of meiosis.

Cell Cycle and Cell Division