* Mitosis: This is the process of cell division that creates two identical daughter cells from a single parent cell. Bread mold, like all living organisms, needs to divide its cells for growth and repair. Mitosis is essential for the fungal hyphae (thread-like structures) to elongate and branch out, allowing the mold to spread.

* Meiosis: This is a specialized form of cell division that produces gametes (sex cells) with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. Meiosis is essential for sexual reproduction. While some fungi reproduce sexually, bread mold primarily reproduces asexually through the formation of spores. Spores are produced through mitosis, not meiosis.

In summary: Bread mold uses mitosis for its growth and asexual reproduction, but it doesn't need meiosis because it primarily reproduces asexually.