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When the average, or mean of a population of organisms are selected for. The immediate environment admits of only one way a garnering resources, for instance. Thus, the extremes of the population have lesser chances of survival.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoStabilizing selection is where the extreme traits on both ends of the trait distribution are selected against.
Human height, for instance. A distribution of heights along a continuum, but no extreme heights in either tail of that distribution and the distribution forms a normal curve.
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∙ 14y agoextremes of the population have a lesser chance to survive.
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∙ 9y agoStabilizing selection refers to a type of natural selection wherein the average form of a trait causes an organism to have an advantage. Mutation is a common cause of stabilizing selection.
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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.
Stabilizing selection results in more or less genetic diversity?
Stabilizing selection results in less genetic diversity in a population.
What modes of selection leads to a reduction in variation but no change in the mean?
Stabilizing selection.
Which type of natural selection tends to prevent evolution?
I would suppose stabilizing selection could do that. Selecting for the mean morphology and behavior would be somewhat in stasis if the environment did not change.
Give an example of stabilizing selection?
Stabilizing selection is a type of natural selection. An example of stabilizing selection is birth weigh in humans. It has been proven that early mortality is highest for extreme birth weights.
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.
Is it true When stabilizing selection acts to eliminate extremes at both ends of a range of phenotypes the frequencies of the intermediate phenotypes increase?
A well stated definition of what stabilizing selection is, so true.
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
When individuals with an average form of a trait have the highest fitness?
Stabilizing selection
Stabilizing selection results in more or less genetic diversity?
Stabilizing selection results in less genetic diversity in a population.
Which kind of selection eliminates extreme phenotypes?
disruptive selection
The curve on the left shows the height of a population of penguins. The curve on the right shows the population five years later. What has happened to this population?
Directional Selection - APEX
A population of mice lives near a stream The larger mice tend to live longer and over many generations the average mouse size gets larger What type of selection is this?
Directional selection
Which natural selection select against both extremes?
Stabilizing selection.
What modes of selection leads to a reduction in variation but no change in the mean?
Stabilizing selection.
When natural selection favor the intermediate version of a characteristic it is called?
stabilizing selection
