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No, that would be more of a directional selection. Phenotypic change from a minor variant phenotype, black in this case, to the majority phenotype due to the environmental selection pressure of pollution on the moth phenotype.

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Industrial melanism is an example of what selection?

Industrial melanism is an example of natural selection, where a population's traits change over time due to selective pressures in their environment. In this case, darker-colored moths had a survival advantage in polluted industrial areas, leading to an increase in their frequency within the population.


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 is the darkening of populations over time in response to industrial pollution?

Industrial Melanism


What organisms affected by industrial melanism?

peppered moth


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 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


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


What do stabilizing selection directional selection have in common?

They both decrease genetic variation .


When natural selection favor the intermediate version of a characteristic it is called?

stabilizing selection