[Taxacom] Morphology vs Molecular

[John Grehan]

> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of bti at dsmz.de
> It is not just John Grehan who uses terms in a more than "derived"
> fashion phenetic = phenotype and cladistic = molecular. 

Correction - I use phenetic to refer to overall similarity, whether in
morphology or molecules and cladistics to refer to analysis of the
distribution of derived character states shared between various taxa of
an ingroup.

Given the fact
> that the original definition of phenetic initially centred on the
> phenotpye but indicated that it could include genetic characters "as
> they become available" 

And with that I could concur.

If you consult many of the
> taxonomic papers in prokaryote research one finds three data sets -
> genetic, phenotypic and phylogenetic.

Which would be confusing indeed.

John Grehan