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Phenetics - What does it mean?

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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

Noun

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  • (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 , page 132,
  • 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.
  • * 2000 , F.G. Priest, Michael Goodfellow, Preface'', ''Applied Microbial Systematics , 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.
  • * 2001 , Jody Hey, Genes, Categories, and Species: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Cause of the Species Problem , 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).

    Synonyms

    * (form of numerical systematics) taximetrics, taxometrics

    See also

    * cladistics

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