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This type of natural selection is called stabilizing selection because the mean traits of the population are being selected for against the immediate environment.

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What is the most common type of natural selection?

The most common type of natural selection is stabilizing selection. This type of selection favors average traits in a population, reducing genetic diversity and maintaining the status quo of a population's characteristics.


What term is defined as the tendency of some members of a population to be better able to survive and reproduce and pass their characteristics?

Natural selection.


How does selection affect natural selection?

Organisms are affected by Natural Selection because Inherited characteristics affected the likelihood of an organism's survival and reproduction.


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 term is defined as the tendency of somebody member of a population to be better able to survive and reproduce and pass in their charaeristics?

Natural selection.


Is Natural selection a source of genetic variation in a population?

No, natural selection works on that genetic variation presented to it.


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.


What do plant and animal breederrs do?

Artificial selection, which is analogous to natural selection. The breeder chooses which characteristics are desirable and breeds towards those characteristics.


What characteristics must population first have for nautral selection to occur?

Individuals are selected, but in the population of organisms there are many variations, some better at survival and reproduction than others, and against the immediate environment, what natural selection really is, these beneficial variations will be selected.


Which type of natural selection favors average individual in a population?

It is stabilizing selection


What requires natural selection to occur in a population?

Natural selection requires variation in traits within a population, heritability of those traits, and differential reproductive success based on those traits. Without these components, natural selection cannot act on a population.