How does mitosis and meiosis work in very simple terms? Whats the difference between them?
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Mitosis copies and then halves the genetic material of the cell, so one mother cell creates two identical daughters. Meiosis is more complicated because the genetic material ‘recombines’, meaning the two copies of each chromosome (one from mom, one from dad) line up next to each other and physically exchange equivalent pieces. Then each daughter cell gets only one of the two copies ( haploid, instead of diploid as with mitosis).
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