True or False: Both mitosis and meiosis begin with a diploid parent cell that has replicated its DNA.

Explanation

True. In both mitosis and meiosis, the parent cell is diploid (2n) and DNA replication occurs during interphase before division begins. The key difference is what happens to that replicated DNA: in mitosis, it is distributed equally to two diploid daughter cells; in meiosis, it is ultimately distributed to four haploid gametes through two rounds of division.