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Germ cells. Somatic cells perform mitosis to get genetically identical daughter cells, and germ cells perform meiosis to get genetically different cells.

In gametophytes, it's known as generative cells.

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Meiosis happens in sex cells. While mitosis is next to cloning, meiosis happens between sex cells so the new cells are only similar to the parent cells, not identical.

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reproductive cells.

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What boby cells undergo meiosis?

Body cells do not undergo meiosis. Reproductive cells undergo meiosis, body cells, mitosis.


Is mitosis sex or body cells?

Body cells. Meiosis deals with sex cells


Are body cells of a plant made by meiosis?

No, body cells are made by mitosis


What is the importance of mitosis and meiosis in your body?

reproduce cells.


What is used to make body cells?

mitosis or meiosis


What only takes place in reproductive organs mitosis or meiosis?

is mitosis or meiosis used to make body cells


What is the difference between cells produced by mitosis and meiosis?

Mitosis reproduces somatic cells, meiosis reproduces sex cells. Mitosis- Cell division involving body cells. Divides once. Meiosis- Cell division involving sex cells. Divides twice.


Does meiosis produce most of the body cells?

No, meiosis is a type of cell division that produces reproductive cells (eggs and sperm) with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. The majority of body cells are produced through mitosis, which results in cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.


Is mitosis or meiosis where the body do it?

Explain with more information on cells


Does meiosis divide sex cells and body cells?

Meiosis is responsible for dividing sex cells (sperm and egg cells) into four non-identical haploid cells. It is not involved in dividing body cells, which go through mitosis for growth, repair, and maintenance of the body.


Mitosis is a division of what?

All the cells that divide in your body, except for sex cells, which divide through meiosis, divide by mitosis.


Where does mitosis occur in the body?

mitosis occures everywhere in the body, most people get mitosis mixed up with meiosis but meiosis is the process of mitosis doubled, meiosis happens mainly in the sex cells suck as sperm, and in the development process of a embryo, zygote, and fetus, etc.