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meiosis
-the cellular process that results in the no. of chromosomes in gamete-producing cells being reduced to one half and that involves a reduction division in which one of each pair of homologous chromosomes passes to each daughter cell and in mitotic division.
mitosis
-a process that takes place in the nucleus of a dividing cell involves typically a series of steps consisting of interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis and results in the formation of two new nuclei each having the same no. of chromosomes as the parent nucleus.
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