Selaginella lepidophylla is the scientific name for the plant more commonly known as Resurrection Plant, Rose of Jericho, or Siempre Viva (Everlasting). Selaginella comes from selago, the Latin name for a type of Juniper. It means Little Juniper.. Lepidophylla is Latin for scaly-leaved.
Mitosis versus meiosis. Cells divide and reproduce in two ways, mitosis and meiosis. Mitosis results in two identical daughter cells, whereas meiosis results in four sex cells. Below we highlight the keys differences and similarities between the two types of cell division.
Diff: --Mitosis occurs in somatic cells and meiosis occurs in reproductive cells --dividing cells in mitosis can be either diploid or haploid but in meiosis, the dividing cells can only be diploid --in mitosis, two daughter cells are formed but in meiosis, four daughter cells are formed --mitosis helps in growth and in body repairs but meiosis helps in sexual reproduction ;) and regulation of the number of chromosomes