While mitosis results in diploid daughter cells, meiosis results in haploid cells. Choose the one of the following statements that best explains why meiosis results in haploid daughter cells rather than diploid daughter cells.

Nondisjunction during meiosis results in an abnormal number of chromosomes in the daughter cells.
Crossing over during meiosis results in the recombination of genetic material.
The parent cell in meiosis is haploid, whereas the parent cell in mitosis is diploid.
DNA replication does not occur prior to the second cell division during meiosis.
DNA replication does not occur prior to the second cell division during meiosis.

The mitosis and meiosis are the types of cell division which differ in the production of a number of daughter cell that is mitosis produces two daughter cells and the meiosis results in four daughter cells.

The mitosis results in the two diploid cells as DNA replication doubles the amount of DNA which got equally distributed in the cells.

During meiosis which proceeds in two phases: meiosis I and II, the DNA replication take place before meiosis which doubles the amount of DNA and the double amount in two daughter cells but no replication takes place before meiosis II, therefore, the amount is distributed from the divided genes.

Thus, the selected option is the correct answer.