Practice question

Principle of phenetic numerical taxonomy asserts every character potentially informative and should be given equal weight a priori to avoid subjective bias toward supposedly important floral or evolutionary traits traditionally emphasized by classical taxonomists. Therefore vegetative plus reproductive floral characters assessed jointly, as many as possible typically exceeding sixty unit characters coded binary or multistate from morphology anatomy. Floral only vegetative only phylogeny only represent partial weighted philosophies contrasted by Adansonian approach of 1763. Equal weighting produces overall similarity coefficient reflecting phenome expression of entire genome, operationally defined without presuming character evolution, distinguishing phenetics from intuition-based classifications.