Quick Question..Is there any difference between differentiation and mitosis? (Urgent)

[AliceT]

Hi everyone, im half way through an essay on explaining the formation of tissues and have got confused! the question is really all in the title, is there any difference between cell differentiation(or tissue differentiation) and mitosis?

 

please help! thankyou in advance.

[Mr Skeptic]

Mitosis it the process of cellular reproduction. One cell divides into two identical or nearly identical daughter cells. In differentiation, a cell changes type, usually from a less specialized cell type like a stem cell into a more specialized cell type like a liver cell or a skin cell.

[muhali3]

Mitosis is just the cell dividing, differentiation is when the cell alters the expression of different genes so it can be dedicated to some specific function.

[CharonY]

To be precise, mitosis refers to the separation of the nucleus not that of the whole cell (though that is what usually happens).

[AliceT]

thankyou all very much for your quick response, things are alot clearer now! thankyou again!

[Riogho]

Yeah, differentiation is what you do when wanting to find the slope of a function at any point. Mitosis is some sort of cell stuff.

[CharonY]

Yeah, differentiation is what you do when wanting to find the slope of a function at any point.

Not in this context.