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Both mitiosis and meiosis begin with a diploid cell that contains replicated chromosomes. explain the main difference between these two prosesses and what type of daughter cells produced by each.

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The main difference is that mitosis occurs in body cells and meiosis occurs in sex cells. Mitosis produces identical daughter cells and meiosis produces genetically different daughter cells.
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