Answer – Mitosis produces two identical daughter cells.
Explanation:
There are two types of cell division – mitosis and meiosis.
Mitosis is common to all cells. From single celled organisms such as yeast to complex multicellular animals such as humans, mitosis takes place in all cells.
During mitosis, one cell splits into two daughter cells. The resulting cells are genetically identical to each other and to the parent cell.
Mitosis has five phases – interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Through these phases, the chromosomes of the parent cell duplicate and the two copies move to opposite ends of the cell. The process ends with the two daughter cells splitting away, each with one full copy of the genetic material of the parent.
Meiosis on the other hand takes place only in sex cells, i.e. the eggs in females and the sperm in males. In it one cell is divided into four cells, but each one has only half the genetic information of the parent cell.
