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The type of selection that removes the fringe from both ends of phenotype distribution and establishing a means or average. Genetic diversity decreases and there is a stabilization on a particular trait.
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What is a common cause of stabilization?
A common cause of stabilizing selection Heterozygotes are fittest.
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.
When individuals with an average form of a trait have the highest fitness?
Stabilizing selection
What are the three patterns of of natural selection?
The three patterns of natural selection are directional selection, stabilizing selection, and disruptive selection. Directional selection favors individuals at one extreme of a trait distribution, stabilizing selection favors the intermediate phenotype, and disruptive selection favors individuals at both extremes of a trait distribution.
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.
Which kind of selection eliminates extreme phenotypes?
disruptive selection
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
Is industrial melanism is stabilizing selection?
Industrial melanism is an example of directional selection, not stabilizing selection. In this phenomenon, environmental changes such as pollution cause a shift in the frequency of dark-colored individuals within a population, which increases their survival rates due to camouflage. Stabilizing selection, on the other hand, favors the intermediate phenotype, reducing the variation in a population.
Which natural selection select against both extremes?
Stabilizing selection.
Type of selection that keeps the center of the curve at its current position?
stabilizing selection
Which type of natural selection favors average individual in a population?
It is stabilizing selection
What do stabilizing selection directional selection have in common?
They both decrease genetic variation .
