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The interphase of meiosis lacks G2 phase

  1. in order to maintain the ploidy level of the progeny as that of parents

  2. in order to shorten the cell cycle in meiosis

  3. in order to release it from the cell cycle

  4. in order to help the cell to divide into four
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Explanation

 G2 phase is responsible for replication of the chromatin material resulting in the formation of similar sister homologous chromosomes, which maintain the ploidy status in the daughter nucleus, as in mitosis and if it occurs so in meiosis then the number of chromosomes will be doubled in the zygote and consequently in the progeny as that of parents and ploidy will be doubled in the progeny with each generation resulting in genetic abnormality.

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