Compare and contrast the processes of meiosis and mitosis.

Mitosis is an asexual process used to produce two identical daughter cells from one parent cell. It maintains the number of chromosome sets in a cell where the chromosomes are segregated and condensed after DNA is replicated. Meiosis also produces cells from one parent cell but does not maintain the same number of chromosome sets and instead gives half of the chromosome set to one daughter cell and another set to the other daughter cell. The meiosis process undergoes two cell divisions where four daughter cells are produced rather than two cells produced from one cell division in mitosis. The fate of the daughter cells is different after the two processes where mitosis generates more mature cells and meiosis makes gametes for sexual reproduction.