In a Tropical Forest, Some Leaves Are Dark Green, and Some

question 67

Multiple Choice

In a tropical forest, some leaves are dark green, and some are light green. In a population of caterpillars, homozygous dominant dark green caterpillars thrive eating the dark green foliage, while homozygous recessive light green caterpillars thrive eating light green foliage. However, heterozygous caterpillars of an intermediate color green are easily seen by birds and eaten, thus their numbers are far less than the dominants or recessives. This is an example of ____ selection.

• A) directional
• B) stabilizing
• C) disruptive
• D) frequent
• E) mutational

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