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How do we distinguish the terms Taxonomy, Paraphyletic, Monophyletic, Polyphyletic, and Metazoans? How do Monophyletic, Paraphyletic, and Polyphyletic taxa differ? How do these differences affect the validity of such taxa for both evolutionary and cladistic taxonomies?

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