Cladistic vs Phenetics - What's the difference?
cladistic | phenetics |
(systematics) A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.
* 1992 , Alec L. Panchen, Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology ,
* 2000 , F.G. Priest, Michael Goodfellow, Preface'', ''Applied Microbial Systematics ,
* 2001 , Jody Hey, Genes, Categories, and Species: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Cause of the Species Problem ,
As an adjective cladistic
is of, relating to, or generated using cladistics.As a noun phenetics is
a form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.phenetics
English
(wikipedia phenetics)Noun
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- We have seen in Chapter 6 and the previous chapters that dissatisfaction with traditional taxonomy gave rise, after the Second World War, to two distinct attempts at a remedy - phenetics and cladistics.
page xi,
- Microbial systematics has enjoyed two major advances in the latter half of this century: the introductions of numerical phenetics' and molecular techniques for direct comparisons of organismal genomes. Numerical ' phenetics (taxonomy) was very influential during the 1960s and 70s in providing the first objective approach to bacterial classification.
page 147,
- One of the most famous and fully developed arguments along these lines, was a justification for phenetics , a school of systematic thought that proposed mathematical methods for grouping organisms based on measurements of similarity {Sokal and Sneath 1963).