Natural Selection That Favors Survival of an Intermediate Phenotype of a Population

question 91

Multiple Choice

Natural selection that favors survival of an intermediate phenotype of a population is called

• A) artificial selection.
• B) diversifying selection.
• C) directional selection.
• D) stabilizing selection.
• E) mediophenotypic selection.

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