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What is phenetics?

What is phenetics? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (systematics) A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.
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During the late seventies and early eighties, scientific meetings and seminar discussions became quite heated over Cladistics or Phenetics.
Such characterizations of our current system paint a picture that the doctrine of phenetics is embedded into our current system.
Also called numerical taxonomy, Phenetics is a school of taxonomy that classifies organisms on the basis of overall morphological or genetic similarity.
A phylogenetic analysis of monocotyledons based on the chloroplast gene rps4, using parsimony and a new numerical phenetics method.

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