0
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.
Wiki User
∙ 9y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoNatural selection refers to the process that allows one species to better adapt to its environment than other species and allow it to survive. One example might be two grasshoppers, one green and one brown. In the same open green field, the brown grasshopper may be eaten more by birds or other animals due to its color not giving it as much camouflage and protection as the green grasshopper. The green grasshopper will reproduce more rapidly due to the larger numbers available compared to the brown grasshopper. The brown grasshopper will eventually die out because of this natural selection.
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoHuman birth weight is an example of stabilizing selection for an average morphology. Not to small, so heat is lost rapidly and not too large so birth problems are avoided.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoa poisonous snake
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoa poisonous snake
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoa poisionous snake
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
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.
What does stabilizing selection do?
The average, distributed normally, trait in phenotype of a population is selected for. Take height in humans as an example. We have variation there, but there are too few ten foot humans and too few 2 foot hymans in the human population because natural selection in it's stabilizing form makes such height extremes reproductively unsuccessful in all earth's immediate environments.
What is the definition of stabilizing selection?
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.
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
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 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
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
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
What do stabilizing selection directional selection have in common?
They both decrease genetic variation .
Which type of natural selection favors average individual in a population?
It is stabilizing selection
