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Natural selection is more of an evolutionary factor than a stabilizing factor, but one could argue that the end result of evolution is an organism that is perfectly adapted to its ecological niche, in which case stability will result.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoThere are no truly stable conditions in nature. In some ways, natural selection causes a kind of temporary stability - a stability grounded in change. But there are certainly possible conditions under which natural selection might drive a population - or even an entire ecology - straight into extinction.
It is a mistake to think that 'nature' automatically gravitates towards some stable condition that favours life. Extinction, wastes, deserts, planetary catastrophes, barren planets, and so on, are just as much part of nature as is a jungle, coral reef or savanna, and just as likely to result from the way geology and Biology develop together - especially now that humans are affecting the ecosphere here on Earth the way they do.
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What are the three patterns of of natural selection?
directional selection,stabilizing selection, anddisruptiveselection
What is Stabilizing Selection and Distruptive selection?
A type of natural selection in which genetic diversity decreases as the population stabilizes on a particular trait value.
What is natural selection that acts against one type of extreme form of a polyygenic trait to reduce genetic variation and change the average value of a trait within a population called?
directional selection
Which kind of selection eliminates extreme phenotypes?
disruptive selection
What do stabilizing selection and disruptive selection have in common apex?
They both decrease genetic variation
What is the type of natural selection that favors intermediate phenotypes?
When natural selection favors the intermediate version of a characteristic, it is referred to as stabilizing selection. It is the opposite of disruptive selection.
What are the three patterns of of natural selection?
directional selection,stabilizing selection, anddisruptiveselection
Which natural selection select against both extremes?
Stabilizing selection.
When natural selection favor the intermediate version of a characteristic it is called?
stabilizing selection
Which type of natural selection favors average individual in a population?
It is stabilizing selection
What is Stabilizing Selection and Distruptive selection?
A type of natural selection in which genetic diversity decreases as the population stabilizes on a particular trait value.
What is natural selection that acts against one type of extreme form of a polyygenic trait to reduce genetic variation and change the average value of a trait within a population called?
directional selection
Which type of natural selection in which the mean characteristics of a population are preserved?
This type of natural selection is called stabilizing selection because the mean traits of the population are being selected for against the immediate environment.
Which of the three types of natural selection works to preserve genetic variability within the population?
stabilizing
When stabilizing selection acts to elimination extremes at both ends of a range of phenotypes the frequencies of the intermediate phenotypes increase?
That is the definition of stabilizing selection.
When individuals with an average form of a trait have the highest fitness?
Stabilizing selection
Which type of natural selection favors the average individual in a population?
That would be the Stabilizing Selection where there will me not a lot of genetic variation. The curve of the population allele frequency would be quite thin with the extreme being in the middle.
