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.
There are two different kinds of cell growth: mitosis and meiosis. In this lesson, we will focus on mitosis, the process in which a pair of chromosomes (the tiny structures that contain DNA, the blueprint of the cell) separate. Mitosis creates two identical pairs of chromosomes and, in turn, two identical cells.