In Disruptive Selection,over Time

question 23

Multiple Choice

In disruptive selection,over time

• A)a population goes extinct.
• B)the most extreme outliers of a population are eliminated (e.g. ,the largest beaks and smallest beaks are eliminated).
• C)the population is strongly selected for in one direction (e.g. ,larger beak size).
• D)the population is strongly selected for in two directions (e.g. ,larger beak size and smaller beak size).
• E)a population increases its variation (E.g. ,a wide selection of all beak sizes).

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