Question

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

• A. Quantitatively
• B. Qualitatively
• C. Functionally
• D. More than one option is correct

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

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.