Significance of cell division

Mitotic cell division

• Growth
• Repair and replacement of body part
• Regeneration of the lost part of the body
• Asexual reproduction

Meiotic cell division

• Essential process in sexual reproduction
  -It preserve a constant number of chromosomes from generation to generation by restoring haploid condition.
  
• Produce genetic variation
  -Synapsis and crossing over
  -radom separation of homologous chromosome in metaphase I and II( independent assortment)