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Each plant or group of plants has some phylogenetic significance in relation to evolution Cycas, one of the few living members of gymnosperms is called as the 'relic of past' . Can you establish a phylogenetic relationship of Cycas with any other group of plants that justifies the above statement?

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Cycas is called relic of past due to following reasons :
(i) Growth is slow .
(ii) Megasporophylls not compact .
(iii ) Motile sperms (flagellated )
(iv) Circinate ptyxis ( fern like )
(v) Persistent leaf bases
(vi) Monoxylic wood .
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