What are the similarities and differences between mitosis and meiosis?

Mitosis is the process by which a cell divides to give rise to two identical diploid daughter cells and is how all somatic cells are produced. Meiosis is the process by which a cell gives rise to four genetically different haploid daughter cells that act as gametes or germ cells (eggs and sperm). Both processes involve the division of cells in which a diploid parent cell gives rise to daughter cells via prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis. The base sequence of events is the same in both processes; however, in meiosis, this sequence happens twice, with recombination/crossing over in prophase 1, pairs of chromosomes rather than single chromosomes lining up along the equator in metaphase 1, and sister chromatids moving to the same pole in anaphase 1 but opposite poles in anaphase 2, before terminating in cytokinesis. (Explain with aid of diagrams).