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Which type of natural selection favors the average individual in a population?
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∙ 13y ago
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.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThis type of selection would be bimodal and could be caused by industrialization, (like the moth population in England where the dark moths were favored in areas where soot had made trees nearly black, the white moths did well on the white birches in the country and the intermediate colored "speckled" individuals were poorly camoflaged in both locations.
Intentional selection by breeders would be another obvious cause of dramatic divergence in a population.
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∙ 12y agoThis is called stabilizing selection because it favors the mean phenotype of a population.
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∙ 13y agoIt is stabilizing selection
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∙ 12y agoStabilizing selection.
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∙ 10y agoIt's Stabilizing Selection
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∙ 14y agoStabilizing Selection
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∙ 13y agoYes.
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What level does natural selection occur at?
natural selection occurs when animals need it
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are?
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are
Why would natural selection not occur in this poplutation?
What population? Perhaps you mean if there were no variation for natural selection to select from.
Which does natural selection affect populations or individuals?
Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.
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 type of natural selection favors average individual in a population?
It is stabilizing selection
What is the application of natural selection theory to human society?
Sociobiology is the application of natural selection to human society Humans are the product of natural selection at the individual level and the product of evolution at the population level, so the human generated society is influenced by the natural selection of individual humans.
What level does natural selection occur at?
natural selection occurs when animals need it
Does natural selection change the individul or the population?
The individual is selected and the population evolves. Keep this straight and you will avoid much confusion in the future.
Does natural selection work on preexisting variation in a population?
Natural selection does work on preexisting variations in a population. This is how the population was shaped to be the way that they currently are or were.
Natural Selection acts on the?
On the individual, or on his genes.
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are?
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are
Is it possible for a population to undergo natural selection?
No, there is no genetic variation upon which natural selection can operate.
What selection favors organisms with phenotypes that are at one extreme rlative to the average phenotype?
Tends to result in a population whose individuals have extreme traits is what? ----> it is directional selection
What is the fundamental unit on which natural selection acts?
individual
Why would natural selection not occur in this poplutation?
What population? Perhaps you mean if there were no variation for natural selection to select from.
Is Natural selection a source of genetic variation in a population?
No, natural selection works on that genetic variation presented to it.
