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 ...

As viewed from a human perspective, nature has done some ingenious engineering to overcome some of the obstacles it has faced. Take the evolution of sex, for instance. To make the move from asexual to ...

Multicellular eukaryotes and single-celled sex cells reproduce by a process called meiosis. In this process, the number of chromosomes in a mother cell is halved to produce gametes, cells that fuse ...

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 ...

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, ...