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Title: What is the difference in alleles between parent and daughter cells in mitosis and meiosis?
Post by: FinnBinn on Dec 15, 2012
Also, if someone could explain what alleles are that would be great because my Biology textbook is extremely confusing. Thanks


Title: What is the difference in alleles between parent and daughter cells in mitosis and meiosis?
Post by: ASKFE on Dec 15, 2012
alleles are simply different versions of a gene.

There is no differences between the alleles between parent and daughter cells in mitosis or meiosis. The only difference between mitosis and meiosis is that meiosis produces cells that halve half the number of chromosomes.