Mitosis is a type of cell division, where after each division two daughter cell are formed from a parent cell i.e. diploid cells are produced. These two daughter cells contains the exact number of chromosomes as their parent cell contained. It occues in all th somatic cells of the higher organisms.\xa0Meiosis is the\xa0type of cell division, where after each division four daughter cells are formed from the parent cell. But they containhalf the number of chromosomes aas the parent cell contained i.e. haploid cells are produced. This cell division is also known as Reductional division. It occurs in the reporoductive cell of the organism