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Meaning of "phenetic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHENETIC

phenetic  [fɪˈnɛtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHENETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phenetic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PHENETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phenetics

In biology, phenetics /fɨˈnɛtɪks/, also known as taximetrics, is an attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity, usually in morphology or other observable traits, regardless of their phylogeny or evolutionary relation. It is closely related to numerical taxonomy which is concerned with the use of numerical methods for taxonomic classification. Many people contributed to the development of phenetics, but the most influential were Peter Sneath and Robert R. Sokal. Their books are still primary references for this sub-discipline, although now somewhat dated and out of print. Phenetics has largely been superseded by cladistics for research into evolutionary relationships among species. However, certain phenetic methods, such as neighbor-joining, have found their way into phylogenetics, as a reasonable approximation of phylogeny when more advanced methods are too computationally expensive. Phenetic techniques include various forms of clustering and ordination. These are sophisticated ways of reducing the variation displayed by organisms to a manageable level.

Definition of phenetic in the English dictionary

The definition of phenetic in the dictionary is of or relating to a system of classification based on similarities between organisms without regard to their evolutionary relationships.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHENETIC


akinetic
eɪkɪˈnɛtɪk
androgenetic
ˌændrəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk
dyskinetic
ˌdɪskɪˈnɛtɪk
electrokinetic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊkɪˈnɛtɪk
epigenetic
ˌɛpɪdʒɪˈnɛtɪk
frenetic
frɪˈnɛtɪk
genetic
dʒɪˈnɛtɪk
hydrokinetic
ˌhaɪdrəʊkɪˈnɛtɪk
hyperkinetic
ˌhaɪpəkɪˈnɛtɪk
immunogenetic
ˌɪmjʊnəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk
kinetic
kɪˈnɛtɪk
morphogenetic
ˌmɔːfəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk
nongenetic
ˌnɒndʒɪˈnɛtɪk
ontogenetic
ˌɒntədʒɪˈnɛtɪk
parthenogenetic
ˌpɑːθɪnəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk
phrenetic
frɪˈnɛtɪk
phylogenetic
ˌfaɪləʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk
psychokinetic
ˌsaɪkəʊkɪˈnɛtɪk
splenetic
splɪˈnɛtɪk
telekinetic
ˌtɛlɪkɪˈnɛtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHENETIC

phenakism
phenakistoscope
phenakite
phenanthrene
phenarsazine
phenarsazine chloride
phenate
phenazine
phencyclidine
phene
pheneticist
phenetics
phenetidine
phenetole
phenformin
phengite
phengophobia
phenic
phenix
phenmetrazine

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHENETIC

aeromagnetic
agenetic
antimagnetic
athletic
biogenetic
cybernetic
cytogenetic
diagenetic
diamagnetic
electromagnetic
ferrimagnetic
ferromagnetic
geomagnetic
gyromagnetic
isokinetic
magnetic
nonmagnetic
paramagnetic
pathogenetic
pharmacokinetic
phonetic

Synonyms and antonyms of phenetic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «phenetic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHENETIC

Find out the translation of phenetic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of phenetic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «phenetic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

表型
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

phenetic
570 millions of speakers

English

phenetic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

phenetic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

phenetic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фенетическая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fenética
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

phenetic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

phénétiques
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fenetik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

phenetic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

phenetic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

phenetic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Phenetic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phenetic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

phenetic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फुयारतमक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

phenetic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fenetica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

phenetic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фенетичної
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

phenetic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φαινετικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fenetiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

phenetisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fenetiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phenetic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHENETIC»

The term «phenetic» is normally little used and occupies the 131.963 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHENETIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phenetic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHENETIC»

Discover the use of phenetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phenetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics
The general similarity of phenetic and allegedly phylogenetic systems of classification may also be due to the fact that we have attempted to express our phylogenetic data by use of exactly the same hierarchy of taxonomic ranks and the same ...
Clive A. Stace, 1991
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Modern Bacterial Taxonomy
Phenetic classifications can be analysed to select the most diagnostic characters for delineation of groups and to provide reliable identification schemes (Chapter 7). Phylogenetic classifications of bacteria rely largely on gene sequence data.
F. G. Priest, B. Austin, 1993
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Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
To eliminate such errors, pheneticists argued that no theoretical considerations should enter into the initial stages of a purely phenetic classification. A pheneticist must classify as if he were completely ignorant of all the scientific achievements ...
Elliott Sober, 1994
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The Biology of Halophilic Bacteria
Ideally, all taxonomic projects should include phenetic, molecular and chemical data. Unfortunately, not all laboratories possess the resources to do everything, but combining phenetic and at least one other characterization technique ...
Russell H. Vreeland, Lawrence I. Hochstein, 1992
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The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the ...
[365]" From these three definitions, then, it would appear that according to the phenetic species concept, unlike Beckner's view, species are not dualistic entities (half abstract, half physical) but instead are monistic entities (fully abstract), ...
David N. Stamos, 2003
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DNA Fingerprinting in Plants and Fungi
Phenetic and Phylogenetic Analysis In recent years, several superb books have appeared that describe molecular phenetic and phylogenetic analyses adequately and in great detail, e.g., Hillis and Moritz286 and Soltis et al.648 Since the ...
Kurt Weising, Hilde Nybom, Markus Pfenninger, 1994
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The Units of Evolution: Essays on the Nature of Species
We therefore partition it into parts containing phenetically homogeneous elements (phenetic surrogates of LBPSs) and infer the possibility of interfertility among these. This is a phenetic grouping procedure. The type of phenetic connectedness ...
Marc Ereshefsky, 1992
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Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social ...
According to Colless (1967a: 17-18), all attempts to reconstruct phylogeny ultimately rest on a phenetic classification, and a phenetic classification is “not a hypothesis, but a datum, a convenient summary of observed facts.” As Colless ( 1967a: ...
David L. Hull, 2010
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Systematics and the Fossil Record: Documenting Evolutionary ...
Again there are several competing species concepts, including the 'phenetic', the 'phylogenetic', and the 'monophyletic' species concepts. These can all generally be grouped under the term 'morphospecies' concepts when based on ...
Andrew B. Smith, 2009
10
Organizational Systematics--taxonomy, Evolution, Classification
I have come to the conclusion that using both the evolutionist and numerical phenetic theories of classification will best serve organizational systematics. This statement is at best an opening gambit to get things rolling, and echoes a plea made ...
Bill McKelvey, 1982

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHENETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term phenetic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Altamura Man who fell down sinkhole starved to death and FUSED …
'Overall, our results concur in indicating that it belongs to Homo neanderthalensis, with some phenetic peculiarities that appear consistent with ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
2
Oldest Ever DNA Sample from Calcified Neanderthal Man
“Overall, the results concur in indicating that it belongs to the hypodigm of Homo neanderthalensis,” the report said, “with some phenetic ... «Bioscience Technology, Apr 15»
3
ReserVORE or ReservWAH? Praan or Peran? There are many …
The home of ReserVORE/VWAH, the northern suburbs' Darebin Council is pronounced DARRA-bin, but surely the phenetic pronunciation ... «Herald Sun, Jun 14»
4
Tongue-twisting towns of NSW: Can you pronounce Pallamallawa …
Below is a list we've compiled with your help. Now comes the challenge. Have a crack at pronouncing them. The phenetic is below should you ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jun 14»
5
Methinks it is like a fox terrier
Table 38-3 “estimated amount of genetic and phenetic change in vertebrate evolution” looks pretty odd indeed [especially in a paper on ... «ScienceBlogs, Nov 13»
6
Keyframe-Entertainment announces launch of EDM film, “The …
The film is directed by Joshua "Phenetic" Freeman and Jeremy "Onket" Ballard, both of whom are well-respected DJ's in the Drum & Bass genre ... «PR Web, Mar 13»
7
What's Jimmie Walker's favorite arthropod?
The diagram is not meant to imply that maximal phenetic variance was present in the early part of the Cambrian, even though groups such as ... «ScienceBlogs, Mar 13»
8
One of the youngest species on earth
But that doesn't help explain species that reproduce asexually, such as bacteria, some insects and even certain vertebrates; Phenetic species ... «BBC News, Nov 12»
9
Weekend's best dance bets: Troy Pierce, DB, Danny the Wildchild …
... the illustrious DB will be heading up the lineup along with Danny the Wildchild, MC Questionmark, X1le, M1D1, Babel & Type-R, Phenetic, ... «Westword, Aug 12»
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Gregor Salto - Azumba (Original Mix)
... Freeman Shared on Google+ · 1 year ago · #GregorSalto has that Latin beat. Drums, drums and more drums. +Phenetic Phreeman #rbar. «YouTube, Jul 12»

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