Through a division process called mitosis, eukaryotic cells divide to create new cells. It enables cell replacement after damage or wear-and-tear and also permits growth.
Mitosis is the process of cell division in which the chromosomes replicate and are evenly dispersed into the two daughter cells. It specifically refers to the division of the duplicated genetic material held in the nucleus during cell division. Each daughter cell has the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell, making them diploid. So, meiosis is the process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells with half the original amount of genetic material. Mitosis is known as equational division. These cells are our sex cells, producing sperm in males and eggs in females throughout the process of mitosis. Eukaryotic cells go through the nuclear division process known as mitosis when they divide to produce two identical daughter cells.
