- In biology,
phenetics (/fɪˈnɛtɪks/; from
Ancient Gr**** φαίνειν (phainein) 'to appear'), also
known as taximetrics, is an
attempt to
classify organisms...
- "distance"
between taxa.
Phenetic methods have
become relatively rare in
modern times,
largely su****ded by
cladistic analyses, as
phenetic methods do not distinguish...
-
Peter Sneath proposed a
variation on the
morphological species concept, a
phenetic species,
defined as a set of
organisms with a
similar phenotype to each...
- or at
least know them well
enough to
skilfully justify not
using them.
Phenetics was an
attempt to
determine the
relationships of
organisms through a measure...
- needed] In addition, the
class rank is
quite often not an
evolutionary but a
phenetic or
paraphyletic group and as
opposed to
those ranks governed by the ICZN...
- with a
certain degree of
morphological or
developmental similarity (the
phenetic definition), or a
group of
organisms with a
certain degree of evolutionary...
-
similarity used to
classify a
group of
organisms by
their phenetic relationship. This
phenetic similarity,
particularly in the case of a****ual organisms...
- research. In the past, the
taxonomy of
gastropods was
largely based on
phenetic morphological characters of the taxa. The
recent advances are more based...
- (2004) on the
early Tarim mummies (Qäwrighul)
failed to
demonstrate close phenetic affinities to "Europoid po****tions", but
rather found that they formed...
-
Prodromus Plantarum Capensium. p. 63. Poulsen, AD, and I Nordal. 2005. A
phenetic analysis and
revision of Guineo-Congolean
rainforest taxa of Chlorophytum...
