Sporogenesis - the production of spores.  Meiosis

Cells that are going into meiosis are very similar if not identical to cells going into mitosis.

Meiosis in a plant with diagrams.

• Meiosis I in a plant
• Meiosis II in a plant

The most significant difference between Meiosis and Mitosis is Prophase I where the Chromosomes Pair up or Synapse.

Text iGenetics by Peter J. Russell

This web site is provided for instruction in Botany and Zoology 342

by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu