What is another important difference between mitosis and meiosis?

A. Mitosis can only occur in cells that are diploid (or have higher ploidy).

B. Meiosis can only occur in cells that are diploid (or have higher ploidy).

C. Mitosis can occur in haploid as well as diploid cells.

D. Both B and C above are important differences.

E. None of the above describes a difference between mitosis and meiosis.

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Brodie Moody

Biology

21 February, 20:25

What is another important difference between mitosis and meiosis?

A. Mitosis can only occur in cells that are diploid (or have higher ploidy).

B. Meiosis can only occur in cells that are diploid (or have higher ploidy).

C. Mitosis can occur in haploid as well as diploid cells.

D. Both B and C above are important differences.

E. None of the above describes a difference between mitosis and meiosis.

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Dylan Harvey · Answer 1

d. both b and c

Explanation:

meiosis can occur in diploid cells because the chromosomes duplicate once, and through two successive divisions, four haploid cells are produced, each with half the chromosome number of the parental cell and also Meiosis occurs only in sexually reproducing organisms.

Mitosis is not restricted to diploid cells. Because Mitosis means Equational division i. e the number of chromosome will remain same after division. So it can occur in both diploid as well as in haploid cells.