phenetic

phenetic
/fi net"ik/, adj. Biol.
pertaining to or based on the observable similarities and differences between organisms without regard to assumed genealogy.
[1960; phen- (extracted from PHENOTYPE, or directly from Gk phaínein to show; cf. PHENO-) + -ETIC, perh. on the model of PHYLETIC or PHYLOGENETIC]

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