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Give scientific reasons for the following statements :
(i) The mushrooms are not regarded plants now.
(ii) Perfect phylogenetic classification is diffcult to achieve.
(iii) Viruses are not included in any system of classification.
(iv) Practical classification results in heterogenous groups of unrelated organisms.
(v) Artificial classification gives little information about the groups.
(vi) Phylogenetic classification is the most favoured classification.

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