What is the main difference between mitosis and meiosis?

Question

Mitosis and meiosis are parts of cell division . One focused on somatic / body cell division while the other focuses on gametogenesis / gamete formation/. Explain both of them in detail and in depth analysis.

Answer 1

Mitosis is what happens when most of the cells in your body divide. It produces two genetically identical “daughter” cells from a single “parent” cell. Each daughter cell has two copies of each chomosome. In most animals including humans, meiosis occurs only in the production of sperm and egg cells for sexual reproduction. Sperm and egg cells only contain one copy of each chromosome--half as much DNA as cells in the rest of the body.