Numerical Taxonomy (Phenetics)

Numerical Taxonomy (Phenetics): Aim & Objective of Numerical Taxonomy, Aspects of Numerical Taxonomy, Principles of Numerical Taxonomy, Steps involved in Numerical Taxonomy, Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), Selection of Unit Characters/Attributes (Binary characters, Multistate characters, Qualitative multistate characters, Quantitative multistate characters), Estimation of Resemblances, Cluster Analysis (Hierarchical clustering: ​Agglomerative clustering, Divisive clustering, Partitional clustering) and Construction of a Phenogram ​(Dendrogram)