Cytogenetics

Mitosis and Meiosis and the Cell Cycle

Multicellular organisms such as plants and animals are composed of millions to trillions of cells that work together. This lesson details the steps of somatic cell division to produce identical cells by mitosis and germline cell division to produce gametes by meiosis. Emphasis is on what is happening genetically as these new cells are made in multicellular, sexually reproducing organisms.