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How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
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Mitosis


Meiosis





Anaphase
The fibers pull the chromatids toward opposite ends of the cell.


Anaphase I
The chromosome pairs separate; half of the chromosomes move toward one end of the cell, the other half, to the other end.

The chromosomes' sister chromatids do not separate as they do in mitosis.



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