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.
Your body continually makes new cells by dividing the ones that already exist. So, all of the body cells you had when you were a kindergartener divided a bunch of times and little you became big you. This process of dividing body cells and their nuclei is called mitosis. Let's take a look at how this process works. We already learned that mitosis is a type of cell division that produces more cells. This not only helps you grow, but also repairs damage when you do things like fall off your bike and scrape the skin from your knee.