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How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
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Mitosis


Meiosis





Mitosis and cytokinesis are complete.

End of cytokinesis
The rest of the cell continues to divide. Only when two, distinct cells form will cytokinesis, the division of the cell's cytoplasm, be complete.

There are now four daughter cells. Each cell has one set of chromosomes, or one half the number of the initial cell.



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