Mitosis, as a cell gives two daughter cells with the number of chromosome in daughter cells remaining same as that of parent, hence also known as equational cell division.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The description that is unique to meiosis would be the final option - D. Daughter cells produced by this chromosome maintaining process, are genetically different from one another.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
It is a wrong quote. Science is supposed to keep changing as we find new information and discover that our previous theories were wrong.
        
             
        
        
        
3.8 billion – 2.5 billion years ago  
The Archean is the name of the age which started with the shaping Earth. This time of Earth's history endured quite a while, over 2.5 billion years. When the archean age ended the earth was just coming alive.