Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Peter J. Russell, Paul E. Hertz, Beverly McMillan
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The aspects of processes of meiosis and mitosis that leads to the conclusion that they are evolutionary related processes and also to review, which of them evolved first.

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Mitosis is a type of cell division in which ploidy of the chromosomes remains same and it is also known as equational division. Meiosis is the type of cell division in which ploidy of the chromosomes decreases to half and also known as reductional division.

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