:Phenetics shouldn't be confused with phonetics, the study of speech sounds, despite the similarity in pronunciation. In biology, phenetics, also known as numerical taxonomy or taximetrics,'s an attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity, usually in morphology or other observable traits, regardless of their phylogeny or evolutionary relation. Phenetics has largely been superseded by cladistics for research into evolutionary relationships among species. However, certain phenetic me… (More on Phenetics)