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The difference between mitosis and meiosis.
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The cell division is of 2 types, mitosis and meiosis. The mitosis is the process of the cell division, which occur in all the somatic cells present in the body of the multicellular organism.
The meiosis is the cell division, which occurs to produce the haploid germ cells.

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The mitosis and meiosis are two types of cellular divisions occurring in the multicellular sexually reproducing organism.
The main difference between mitosis and meiosis is given below:
Mitosis | Meiosis |
It occurs in the somatic cells.
It causes the growth and healing. It produces diploid cells. Only a single phase is involved. The cells are clone, which means the genetic composition of the parents and the daughter cells is same. | It occurs in the germ cells.
It is involved in the production of gametes. It produces haploid daughter cells. There are two phases, meiosis I and meiosis II. The cells produced are not genetically identical, as they are haploid and recombination of genes causes the |
The mitosis occurs in the somatic cells and produces clone daughter cells. The meiosis occur in germ cells and produces haploid gametes with different genetic combination.
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