Phenetic classification is based on:

Phenetic classification is based on:
  1. the ancestral lineage of existing organisms
  2. observable characteristics of existing organisms
  3. dendrograms based on DNA characteristics
  4. sexual characteristics

Solution

Phenetics is a form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics (based on observable similarities and differences between taxa).

Asked in: NEET 2003

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