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Simple organisms may be unicellular, consisting of just one cell, while more complex organisms are multicellular. There are two types of cell division. Mitosis is used for growth and repair and produces diploid cells identical to each other and the parent cell. Meiosis is used for sexual reproduction and produces haploid cells different to each other and the parent cell. Unicellular vs multicellular An ameoba, a simple unicellular organism
On a larger scale, mitotic cell division can create progeny from multicellular organisms, such as plants that grow from cuttings. Mitotic cell division also enables sexually reproducing organisms to develop from the one-celled zygote, which itself was produced by meiotic cell division from gametes.