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what is difference between phylogeny and cladistics system of classification

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Phylogeny classify the organisms on the basis of evolutionary relationship among group of organism.
Cladistics group the organisms on the basis of some shared characteristics that should have come from group's last common ancestor and are not present in more distant ancestors.

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