What's The Difference Between Mitosis and Meiosis?

A scientific spoof on the classic by Dr. Dre and Xzibit. What's the difference between mitosis and meiosis? What's the difference between mitosis and meiosis? Lets explain each, first we got mitosis The cell starts off in interphase, where it's kickin' with the homies The cell grows and grows, till its ready to split from them hoes With all its new chromosomes, its ready to goes Next is prophase, the chromatids pair at the centromere The mitotic spindle forms outside the nuclear envelope here. The centrosomes move to opposite poles. That's where they stays. The chromosomes on the plate we call it metaphase (yeah). Comin is Anaphase, microtubules pull back at the kinetochore Separate the chromosomes; make 'em look like they're tore. Last is telophase, the new nucleolus and envelope formed With the help of cytokinesis, two daughter cells are borned. Break at the cleavage furrow, the cell's pinched in two If ya didn't know it before, we aim to give ya a clue. What's the difference between mitosis and meiosis? Meiosis does the gametes, while somatics from mitosis Meiosis I has the unique chromosome pairing of a tetrad Crossing over at chiasmata, that's synapsis, its really rad. Meiosis is next, looks a lot like the first one If it didn't have two phases, it might be mitosis' son. Starts off the same, interphase begins Chromosomes duplicate, rollin in the nuclear envelope like rims Now hear it gets different, we hit prophase uno Homologous chromosomes pair, makin a tetrad sumo Because synapsis pairs the chromosomes, crossing over occurs At the chiasmata, which holds until anaphase, yessir! We hit up metaphase, it's the same as before Tetrads line up, microtubules attached to the kinetochores Anaphase I, the paired homologues shoot to their pole Centrosomes pull sister chromatids apart, cell becomin' oval Meiosis I ends with telophase I, wit some cytokinesis These chromosomes are still in a pair, like Reese's pieces Two haploid cells are formed, the furrow separates them again With Meiosis I done, we can start all where we begin. Meiosis II and mitosis, they are almost the same Except one makes 2 diploids, while 4 haploids is what II (what II) claims. [Chorus]