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All vertebrates are chordates but all chordates are not vertebrates. Justify the statement.

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All vertebrates are chordates because they have notochord at the embryonic stages. In vertebrates, the notochord is replaced by vertebral column.
- Hence within chordates, vertebrates is a group of higher chordates.
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