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Normal cell division meiosis and gamete production via meiosis.

Explain why the process of mitosis and meiosis are both important to a living organism. When would an organism need to undergo the process of mitosis? Meiosis? What would happen if meiosis did not occur?

Mitosis is the cell process of growth and division whereas meiosis is the process of developing reproductive cells. The sperm and egg are critical components for almost all living organisms. Every living organism begins with one cell that came from our father’s sperm fertilizing our mother’s egg. This beginning cell then divided by mitosis into two cells (called daughter cells) which then grow and divided into four cells. Mitosis continues through when we were born and continues again until we “fully” grown. Mitosis occurs regularly to replace old dead skin cells. “Mitosis has five stages which include: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase, which constitute the period in which the......

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