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.
Mitosis produces all animal and plant cells, tissues, and organs excepts for the gametes ( the eggs and sperm). Since mitosis produces genetic clones of the parent cell when it divides, all animal and plant cells that grow from a fertilized egg (zygote) are more or less genetically identical.