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.
Cellular division, or mitosis, produces two daughter cells that are identical to the parent cell. As explained by Clinton Community College, mitosis allows multicellular organisms to grow and repair damaged tissue. Daughter cells are also produced during meiosis, which is a special type of cell division that enables organisms to sexually reproduce. Daughter cells produced in meiosis have one half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.