Mitosis occurs in the somatic cell, it is an equational division, mitosis is required for the repair and growth of the cell and organism consequently.
While meiosis occurs in gametes or germ cell, it is a reductional division, meiosis is responsible for the formation of sex cells as sperm and eggs in the organism.
Both mitosis and meiosis are responsible for splitting the nucleus and DNA and these are passed on to the two daughter cells formed.
Explanation:
Mitosis is the process of cell division in which the cell divides and each cell is identical to the parent cell in the context of DNA and its nature There are four phases of DNA as Prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. The daughter cells formed, have diploid (2n) number of chromosomes.
While meiosis is the process of cell division in germ cells which start with one cell and ends in 4 haploid cells. Meiosis is completed in two steps as meiosis 1 and meiosis 2.
