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Friday, 10 October 2014

Closest Nonchordate Relatives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate

Hemichordates

Hemichordates ("half (½) chordates") have some features similar to those of chordates: branchial openings that open into the pharynx and look rather like gill slits; stomochords, similar in composition to notochords, but running in a circle round the "collar", which is ahead of the mouth; and a dorsal nerve cord—but also a smaller ventral nerve cord.

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