Stabilizing Selection Occurs When

question 43

Multiple Choice

Stabilizing selection occurs when  

• A) the environment controls which organisms will survive.
• B) humans determine which organisms will survive.
• C) the extremes of the population have a lesser chance to survive.
• D) the extremes of the population have a better chance to survive.
• E) the organisms on one extreme of the population have a better chance to survive than those on the other extreme.

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