 When the cell just divides the meiosis 2 starts as you can see in the diagram because now We know that after meiosis 1 one cell is divided into two cells Each with a half set of chromosomes Each with a half number of chromosomes in case of human beings for example If there were 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs then each daughter cell after meiosis 1 now We'll have 23 chromosomes one from each homolog in case of an organism for example Which have a 16 total chromosomes in eight pairs both daughter cells will now have eight Chromosomes each that is one set and all are recombined so recombination is done Now both of these cells will enter into the meiosis 2 meiosis 2 so it means that Meiosis 2 will occur in the cells in the two cells which are already produced by the meiosis 1 You can see the first cell is dividing and the second cell is also dividing The meiosis 2 is just like the mitosis in the meiosis 2 first phase is prophase we call it prophase 2 because This is the prophase of the meiosis 2 in prophase 2 the chromosomes they Appear they become visible under the microscope because of the condensation because they are condensed they are thickened and The centrioles start moving in the animal cells centrioles start moving towards the poles and they start making the spindle fibers and Again at the end of the prophase the nuclear membrane will disappear at about and of the prophase 2 The nuclear membrane disappears and the chromosomes and spindle fibers are there in place in the center After the end of prophase 2 metaphase 2 starts met in the metaphase 2 the chromosomes now Arranged themselves on the equatorial plate now as we know they are duplicated and now each Sister chromated is attached with the the spindle fibers with the help of separate kinetocores like that of And they arrange themselves on the equatorial plate as you can see this is observable in both cells That they are arranged on the equatorial plate and now each sister chromated is Separately attached with the spindle fiber then comes the NFS 2 in NFS 2 The chromosomes start separating from each other because the spindle fibers They start pulling these chromosomes towards the poles and now because each sister chromated was Separately attached to a spindle fiber by its own kinetocore each sister chromated move towards the poles So the result is an equal number of chromosomes Distributed towards each pole when the NFS 2 ends then comes the telophase 2 in the telophase 2 The chromosomes in equal numbers now Reached at the poles nuclear membrane starts forming nuclear material Start decondensing again and become invisible as that of the interface the spindle fibers. They are Deformed they are degraded and the each cell is divided into two makes total of the four So in meiosis one what happened that one cell is divided into two each with a half number of chromosomes But both of these cells which were the products of the meiosis one were individually Divided by another phase of meiosis called meiosis 2 and the end products of these two cells is four cells all with a half number of chromosomes because Reduction is already complete in the meiosis one. So this is how by One mother cell in the germ lines germ line cells is divided into four cells or daughter cells Either sperms or eggs which have a half number of chromosomes in each There is another difference at In the meiosis between the males and the females In males one One germ line cell divides into four equal sized cells It means that one germ line cells cell makes four Spomps with all with a haploid number of chromosomes and number of chromosomes But in females there is a difference as you can see in the diagram When after the meiosis one which is the reduction division chromosome number become one half But when the cell divides it divides unequally it means that Chromosome number is half in both of the cells but the cytoplasm and the cytoplasmic contents Goes more towards one cell and the other cell though have equal number of chromosomes But have fewer parts of cytoplasm and the others which results in one cell Which is large which is called a secondary oocyte and the other is called a polar body which is very small Next we in in the next division the polar body again divides But it divides that is in the meiosis 2 it divides into equal size cells But the secondary oocyte that is the other cell which is larger in size is again Divided by meiosis 2 but this division is again an unequal division the result is in a very large Oven and a second polar body So it means that in a female the cells as you can see in the diagram one cell The primary oocyte is divided into four cells But three of these are called polar bodies which are small in size and which are discarded and The one which is larger in size is called the ovum and this is retained for fertilization So there is a difference between the meiosis in males and females in this regard Now we do compare the processes of mitosis and meiosis as we know that mitosis divides the cell one cell somatic cell into two daughter cells but In meiosis one cell the parent cell or the mother cell is divided into four daughter cells in mitosis This is alike in males and females the somatic cells of males and females or every type of cells The division in males and females is not different from each other They are just like but meiosis is a different in males and females Because three are polar bodies and one is an ovum in the females but in males all of the four are Spombs then in mitosis the chromosome number remains same in the daughter cells We call it 2n after mitosis 2n number of chromosomes is retained But in meiosis the chromosome number is reduced to one half in the daughter cells Neither these are four or one the chromosome number is one half in the gametes. So mitosis and meiosis They are different from each other and mitosis occur in the somatic cells meiosis occur in the germ lines