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All vertebractes are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrate. Explain.

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The characteristic features of the phylum chordata include the presence of a notochord present in embryos gets replaced by a cartilaginous or bony vertebral column in adults. Thus it can be said that all vertebrates are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrates.
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