State three differences between daughter cells produced by the process of mitosis and those produced by meiosis.

Meiosis is a type of cell division that only occurs in the sex organs, testes and ovaries, mitosis occurs in every cell in the body, these are somatic cells. Daughter cells are the cells that are produced as a result of the division, meiosis produces genetically different cells however mitosis produces genetic clones. Meiosis includes two divisions and therefore produces four daughter cells, mitosis involves one division and produces two daughter cells. Meiosis produces cells that will fus to form a zygote, to maintain organisms with the correct number of chromosomes, meiosis produces haploid daughter cells, for the same reasons mitosis produces diploid daughter cells to maintain genetic material in all the tissues. 

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