Mitosis is used for almost all of your body’s cell division needs. The goal of Mitosis is to make an exact copy of the nuclei that are genetically identical to their mothers, with not a single chromosome more or less. It adds new cells during development and replaces the old cells throughout your life. Mitosis ends up by taking the cell and makes it two (diploid).

Meiosis, on the other hand, is used for just one purpose in the human body: the production of gametes sex cells. Its goal is to make genetically different cells. Meiosis ends up with 4 new cells.

Mitosis and Meiosis both goes though many phases in order to complete its main goal.

Vocabularies:
Diploid
Mitosis
Inter
Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
Cytokinesis