Mitosis and meiosis are both processes by which cells reproduce, but there are distinct differences between the two. While new cells are generated during mitosis, meiosis is a special type of cell ...

By contrast, the process of meiosis, which only occurs in germinal cells, produces non-identical haploid daughter cells. Meiosis ensures genetic variability by ‘shuffling’ our ‘deck of genes’. This ...

Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to the ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, ...

The chromatids arrive at the either end of each cell and new nuclear membranes form. With meiosis in a female, there is only one dividing cell at this point. As in telophase I, the cytoplasm of the ...

Most cells rely on structural tethers to position chromosomes in preparation for cell division. Not so oocytes. Instead, a powerful intracellular stream pushes chromosomes far-off the center in ...

FROM observations made in this laboratory by S. G. Smith, E. Marie Hearne, Jane D. Spier, J. M. Armstrong, A. W. S. Hunter, and me on meiosis and both haploid and diploid mitosis in Trillium, ...