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To determine:  The critical innovations that resulted in the separation of each clade of animal phylogeny of figure 33.1 given in the text book.

Introduction: The animal phylogeny can be defined as the study of evolutionary relationships among various groups of animals. These types of classification of organisms mainly depend on the sequencing of molecular data.

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Phylogenetic Mysteries: Crash Course Zoology #12; Author: CrashCourse;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVaw7nF72Aw;License: Standard youtube license