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Question
Define and understand the following term:
Phylum
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Solution
Classes comprising animals like fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals constitute the next higher category called phylum. All these, based on common features like the presence of the notochord and dorsal hollow neural system, are included in the phylum Chordata. In the case of plants, classes with a few similar characters are assigned to a higher category called division.
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