Color Meaning: Meaning of The Color Blue January 15, 2011 Jennifer Bourn This post is part of the Color Meaning Blog Series, detailing the meanings associated with colors such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, grey, black, white, brown, pink, turquoise, gold, silver, and beige.
While mitosis produces 2 daughter cells from each parent cell, meiosis results in 4 sex cells, or gametes in males and 1 in females. Unlike the cells created by mitosis, gametes are not identical to the parent cells. In males, meiosis is referred to as spermatogenesis because sperm cells are produced.
Produces gametes (sex cells). Stages of mitoses are repeated twice. Gametes (sperm or ova) that result have half the normal number of chromosomes (gametes are haploid, have one set of 23 chromosomes, somatic cells are diploid, have two sets of 23 chromosomes, 46 total).