Selaginella lepidophylla is the scientific name for the plant more commonly known as Resurrection Plant, Rose of Jericho, or Siempre Viva (Everlasting). Selaginella comes from selago, the Latin name for a type of Juniper. It means Little Juniper.. Lepidophylla is Latin for scaly-leaved.
Mitosis versus meiosis. Cells divide and reproduce in two ways, mitosis and meiosis. Mitosis results in two identical daughter cells, whereas meiosis results in four sex cells. Below we highlight the keys differences and similarities between the two types of cell division.
Single-celled eukaryotes, such as amoeba and yeast, use mitosis to reproduce asexually and increase their population numbers. Multicellular eukaryotes use mitosis to grow or heal injured tissues. The second type of cell division, meiosis, is a specialized form of cell division that occurs in organisms that reproduce sexually (that is, by combining the unique genetic information of two parents). Meiosis produces reproductive cells, such as sperm cells, egg cells and spores from plants and fungi.