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Meaning of "phenetics" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHENETICS

From phen(otype) + (gen)etics.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PHENETICS

fɪˈnɛtɪks


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHENETICS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phenetics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHENETICS 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 Phenetics has largely been superseded by cladistics for research into evolutionary relationships among species.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 phenetics in the English dictionary

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

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHENETICS

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHENETICS

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PHENETICS

acoustic phonetics · anaesthetics · apologetics · articulatory phonetics · auditory phonetics · bioenergetics · cosmetics · cyberathletics · dietetics · energetics · esthetics · exegetics · geodetics · homiletics · mathematics · memetics · molecular genetics · poetics · theoretics · track and field athletics · track athletics

Synonyms and antonyms of phenetics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «phenetics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHENETICS

Find out the translation of phenetics to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of phenetics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «phenetics» in English.
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phenetics
1,325 millions of speakers
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fenética
570 millions of speakers
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phenetics
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phenetics
380 millions of speakers
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фенетика
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fenética
270 millions of speakers
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phenetics
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phenetics
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Fenetik
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phenetics
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phenetics
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phenetics
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Phenetics
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phenetics
80 millions of speakers
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phenetics
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गारगोटी
75 millions of speakers
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phenetics
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phenetics
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фенетікі
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phenetics
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phenetics
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numeriese taksonomie
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Trends of use of phenetics

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHENETICS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of phenetics
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phenetics

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHENETICS»

Discover the use of phenetics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phenetics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology
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. In this chapter, I review the methodology ...
Alec L. Panchen, 1992
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Evolution of the Insects
One response was the development of numerical taxonomy, or phenetics. Developed principally at the University of Kansas by the entomologists Robert Sokal (Figure 1 .23) and Charles D. Michener and by the microbiologist Peter Sneath ...
David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, 2005
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Organizational Systematics--taxonomy, Evolution, Classification
7.4. ORGANIZATIONAL. PROPINQUITY. AND. NUMERICAL. PHENETICS. I have suggested the dominant competence species concept as the basis of organizational propinquity and diversity. Since a phyletic classification is largely based on ...
Bill McKelvey, 1982
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Phenetics
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
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution
4 a phenetics presents a more watered-down version which accepts that bias cannot be totally eliminated, and that recourse to some form of explanation is necessary. Obviously, strong phenetics is a methodologically mad position, implying ...
N. R. Scott-Ram, 1990
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Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data
These perspectives have led to the development of the phenetic approach to classification. Phenetics is here defined as a method of classification based on numerous precisely delimited characters (with carefully coded states) usually of equal ...
Tod F. Stuessy, 2013
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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an ...
It is becoming increasingly evident that a one-sided methodology cannot achieve all the above-listed objectives of a good classification. The silent assumption in the methodologies of phenetics and cladistics is that classification is essentially a  ...
Ernst Mayr, 1988
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Molecules and Morphology in Evolution: Conflict Or Compromise?
Phenetics and cladistics Whatever the case, progress with phylogeny was slow to come, and dissatisfaction was general. No doubt stemming partly from that dissatisfaction, there appeared in the 1960s two new and very different approaches, ...
Colin Patterson, 1987
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Biological Systematics: Principles and Applications
Those who practiced phenetics were soon called pheneticists. The additional terms syncretist and gradist are also found in the literature. They usually refer to individuals whose approach to taxonomy reflects a combining of methodologies into ...
Randall T. Schuh, 2000
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Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts & Transitions Through Time
The primary point made by cladists is that there is no biological foundation to the phenetic approach, no way to assess which classification derived by phenetics is "real." On the other hand, there has been only one tree of life, and this gives the ...
Robert A. Martin, 2004

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHENETICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term phenetics is used in the context of the following news items.
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After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “phenetics” (one of several terms Compton includes in a self-reflexively ironic “Very Short Glossary of Racial ... «Quill & Quire, Nov 10»
REFERENCE
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