Question

Which statement best describes a difference between mitosis and meiosis in humans?

Answer 1

Mitosis is the division of all cells to produce daughter cells (ie a skin cell); meiosis is the production of gametes (sex cells - eggs and sperm) and only occurs in the reproductive system.
Mitosis produces diploid cell cells - they have the full complement of chromosomes (one from mum and one from dad in each pair); meiosis produces haploid cells - they have half the number of chromosomes (so when the nucleus of the sperm fuses with the nucleus of the egg the single cell zygote has the full complement of chromosomes).
Mitosis only has one division;meiosis has two divisions (a reduction division to reduce the number of chromosomes the a 'mitosis' style division).

Lots of differences so hard to sum up in one statement though

Answer 2

M(i)tosis is cell division beneficial (i)nternally for the individual; M(e)iosis is cell division beneficial (e)xternally for the individual (the group, society, world and so forth).

Answer 3

Mitosis occur in the lower organisms actually, in humans it occurs after the formation of the zygote, so that the cells multiply and form the embryo and then fetus whereas Meiosis occurs during the gamete formation and meiosis always occur in a diploid cell to produce haploid cell.In Meiosis always produce 4 haploid units from a single diploid unit. In humans meiosis helps to form the respective germ cells(egg and sperm) so that when fuse , they form a single diploid unit- zygote.In mitosis 2 daughter cells are formed( they could be haploid,diploid or even triploid). In mitosis the daughter cell is identical to the parent cell whereas in meiosis it is not.

Answer 4

Meiosis.....sex cells ie egg and sperm Mitosis.....all other cells in the body