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Phenetics meaning

A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.

Using Phenetics

  • The main meaning on this page is: A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.

Context around Phenetics

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

using 1×

Often after:

cannot 1× revolves 1× provides 1× today 1×

Sentence patterns with Phenetics

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573 p phenetics has largely 1× challenge in phenetics revolves around 1× identified using phenetics cannot subsequently 1× phenetics did not 1× phenetics provides numerical 1× phenetics today traditionally 1× phenetics was an 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

phenetics did not 1× phenetics provides numerical 1× phenetics today traditionally 1× phenetics was an 1× w h freeman 1×

Common sentence endings:

apomorphies derived traits 1× classified as species 1× relationships among species 1× resolve evolutionary relationships 1× than phylogenetic ones 1× the resulting graphs 1×

Words around Phenetics

Just before it in the word index:

pheneticists 2 phenetic 3 phenethylamine 3 phenergan 3 phenelzine 3 phen 2

Just after it in the word index:

phenix 16 phenobarbital 2 phenol 34 phenolate 3 phenolic 34 phenolics 6

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaba 10 aafc 10 aaib 10 aalbers 10 abbate 10 abbesses 10

Corpus analysis for Phenetics

  • In this selection, "phenetics" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, using, cannot, revolves and provides stand out and add context to how "phenetics" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 573 p phenetics has largely and challenge in phenetics revolves around. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "phenetics" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with phenetics

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Phenetics provides numerical tools for examining overall patterns of variation, allowing researchers to identify discrete groups that can be classified as species. (22 words)

W. H. Freeman, San Francisco. xv + 573 p. Phenetics has largely been superseded by cladistics for research into evolutionary relationships among species. (22 words)

But there is no reason why, e.g., species identified using phenetics cannot subsequently be subjected to cladistic analysis, to determine their evolutionary relationships. (24 words)

Longer example sentences

Phenetics was an attempt to determine the relationships of organisms through a measure of overall similarity, making no distinction between plesiomorphies (shared ancestral traits) and apomorphies (derived traits). (28 words)

Much of the technical challenge in phenetics revolves around balancing the loss of information in such a reduction against the ease of interpreting the resulting graphs. (26 words)

Phenetics did not try to reconstruct phylogenetic trees; rather, it tried to build dendrograms from similarity data; its algorithms required less computer power than phylogenetic ones. (26 words)

Example sentences (7)

But there is no reason why, e.g., species identified using phenetics cannot subsequently be subjected to cladistic analysis, to determine their evolutionary relationships.

Much of the technical challenge in phenetics revolves around balancing the loss of information in such a reduction against the ease of interpreting the resulting graphs.

Phenetics did not try to reconstruct phylogenetic trees; rather, it tried to build dendrograms from similarity data; its algorithms required less computer power than phylogenetic ones.

Phenetics provides numerical tools for examining overall patterns of variation, allowing researchers to identify discrete groups that can be classified as species.

Phenetics today Traditionally there was a great deal of heated debate between pheneticists and cladists, as both methods were initially proposed to resolve evolutionary relationships.

Phenetics was an attempt to determine the relationships of organisms through a measure of overall similarity, making no distinction between plesiomorphies (shared ancestral traits) and apomorphies (derived traits).

W. H. Freeman, San Francisco. xv + 573 p. Phenetics has largely been superseded by cladistics for research into evolutionary relationships among species.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "phenetics" in a sentence?
An example: "But there is no reason why, e.g., species identified using phenetics cannot subsequently be subjected to cladistic analysis, to determine their evolutionary relationships." This page contains 7 example sentences with the word "phenetics" from authentic English texts.
What does "phenetics" mean?
Phenetics means: A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.
How many example sentences with "phenetics" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 7 example sentences with "phenetics", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.