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Bacterial populations have been exposed to an antibiotic and have developed resistance to the antibiotic over time. Would this be an example of stabilizing selection, directional selection, or disruptive selection? Explain your reasoning.


Definitions:

Cladogram

Evolutionary tree diagram that visually summarizes a hypothesis about how a group of clades are related.

Cladogram

A diagram used in cladistics which shows relations among organisms based on shared derived characteristics.

Phylogeny

Evolutionary history of a species or group of species.

Clade

A group of taxa whose members share one or more defining derived traits.

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