Meiosis resembles mitosis, but not quite We made this association since we have already touched upon this process more than once. Mitosis is cell division with the formation of two absolutely identical cells. This mechanism is characteristic of all cells in the body except for germ cells. They divide according to the rules of meiosis👇🏻 Four daughter cells are formed, but with not an identical set of chromosomes - each one is left with 13 pairs instead of 46. And also in meiosis two divisions (first into two cells and then they divide into two more). Reducing the number of chromosomes during meiosis is very important, because otherwise the number of chromosomes would increase from generation to generation🧬