There are numerous differences in meiosis; starting from the fact that meiosis occurs only in sexual cells, producing a sperm and an egg. We have the same stages in meiosis which are prophase I, metaphase I, anaphase I, and telophase I, but then again meiosis goes through those stages twice to leave behind four cells with half the genetic material in each cell. In early prophase I, the DNA is replicated and we still have pairs of chromatids left. Just as in mitosis, the mitotic spindles prepare to pull the centrioles to opposite sides. There is a mid-late prophase I which is again different from mitosis because at this time the chromatids separate differently. This means that they will not be genetically identical in the final result. Moving into metaphase I, similar to mitosis, the chromatid pairs align in the center of the cell. Pulling begins again in anaphase I, where arbitrary division of pairs occurs on both sides of the cell. In telophase 1, the cell separates and we are left with two cells containing only 23 chromosomes. Below we start this process all over again