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.
Mitosis makes two identical cells. Meiosis makes four different cells. Mitosis makes two cells with exactly the same number of chromosomes(diploid cells) Meiosis makes four cells with half the number of chromosomes (haploid cells) Mitosis only takes one step. Meiosis takes two steps. In addition to that meiosis is only used for gamete production (like eggs, or sperm).