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Q. Daughter cells formed after mitosis resemble to their mother cell but daughter cells formed after meiosis differ from mother cell:

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Mitosis is an equational division in which the daughter cells formed are identical to the parent cell in quantity and quality of chromosomes. Meiosis is a reductional division in which the cell produced have half the number of the chromosome than parent cell and crossing over brings about variation.