The Mode of Natural Selection in Which One Extreme Phenotype

question 43

Multiple Choice

The mode of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is fittest and the environment selects against the others is

• A) directional selection.
• B) disruptive selection.
• C) stabilizing selection.
• D) artificial selection.
• E) uniformitarianism.

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