Where Do Mitosis and Meiosis Occur?
Mitosis happens all over your body to help you grow or heal, while meiosis is the special division for making sperm and eggs, happening in your reproductive organs.
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You鈥檒l find mitosis in your skin cells and meiosis in your, well, baby-making parts.
Mitosis takes the stage in somatic cells for growth and repair, and meiosis wows the crowd in your testes or ovaries for gamete production!
Mitosis happens in somatic (body) cells for growth and repair, while meiosis occurs in the reproductive organs to produce gametes (sperm and eggs).
As a biology teacher, I can tell you mitosis is like the steady worker, happening in most body cells for growth, while meiosis is the party animal, only happening in your reproductive organs to make gametes.
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