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.
In higher organisms like humans, these are immature sperm cells in males and developing eggs in females. All other cells in your body use a different type of cell division, called mitosis, to produce new cells. For example, cells in your skin divide regularly by mitosis to keep a new supply of skin cells available at all times.