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Cell Division can either take place by Mitosis or Meiosis:

Cell division in Prokaryotic cells:

Mitosis: produces two daughter cells that have the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell and each other
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Meiosis: produces four daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell
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Mitosis is the division of a cell that results in each of
the daughter cells having an exact copy of the DNA
of the parent cell
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Mitosis
The importance of Mitosis:

Growth: if a new organism is to
resemble its parents, all the cells
that grow from this original cell
must be genetically identical
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Reproduction: single-celled organisms divide by mitosis to give two
new organisms
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The two copies of
the DNA after replication remain joined at a place called a centromere
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Organelles called centrioles move to
opposite ends (poles) of the cell
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Collectively, these spindle fibres are
called the spindle apparatus
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Each chromatid is
an identical copy of DNA from the parent cell
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Microtubules from the poles are attached and the chromosomes are pulled along the spindle apparatus and arrange themselves across
the equator of the cell
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They move rapidly to their opposite poles of the cell and we now refer to them as chromosomes
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Spindle fibres disintegrate and the nuclear envelope and nucleolus reform
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