What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis?

Both mitosis and meiosis are methods of cell division. Mitosis is cell division where the DNA of the parent molecule is duplicated then split into 2 identical daughter cells. Mitosis is split into 4 stages; Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase & Telophase. The daughter cells are genetically identical to each other as well as their parent hence they show no genetic variation.
Meiosis is the cell division of sex cells. It is split into 2 stages; meiosis I & meiosis II. Meiosis I separates homologous pairs of chromosomes and meiosis 2 separates each chromosome into 2 copies. In meiosis there is genetic variation as the daughter cells are not identical to each other nor the parent cell due to crossing over and independent segregation.