When Natural Selection Tends to Split a Population into Two

question 95

Multiple Choice

When natural selection tends to split a population into two phenotypic groups, it is called

• A) coevolution.
• B) genetic drift.
• C) stabilizing selection.
• D) gene flow.
• E) balanced polymorphism.

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