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What is meant by phylogenetic classification?

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Phylogenetic classification is a system, that traces the ancestral relationship between species and arranges them accordingly into a chronological order called the phylogenetic tree or the cladogram whose branch points/junctions represent the common ancestors between two or more diversifying species.

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