- Both begin with one diploid parent cell
- Both stages end with cytokinesis
- Both consist of multiple stages including: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis
- Both stages duplicate the DNA
- Both stages condense the DNA into chromosomes
- Both require the chromosomes to be pulled apart by a centrosome (1 or 2 centrioles)
- Both are pulled apart by spindle fibres formed from the centrosome
- Both require the nuclear membrane to go away
| - Mitosis is used in asexual reproduction, meiosis is used in sexual reproduction
- Crossing over occurs in meiosis and not in mitosis
- The cells produced in mitosis are genetically identical, but the cells in meiosis are genetically different
- Mitosis is used for growth and repairing the body, meiosis is used for genetic diversity through sexual reproduction
- Cells divide once in mitosis, twice in meiosis
- 2 diploid cells are produced in mitosis, 4 haploid cells are produced in meiosis
- The number of chromosomes stay the same in mitosis, but in meiosis the number is halved
- Centromeres split during anaphase in mitosis and in meiosis they split during anaphase II
- Mitosis is used to create any cell but sex cells, meiosis is only used to create sex cells
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