Which Type of Natural Selection Occurs When an Intermediate Phenotype

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which type of natural selection occurs when an intermediate phenotype is favored?

• A)disruptive selection
• B)directional selection
• C)genetic drift selection
• D)stabilizing selection
• E)adaptive selection

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Definitions:

Convergence

A term that refers to the coming together of two or more things; in a physiological context, it describes the inward movement of the eyes toward each other when focusing on a close object.

Closure

The psychological tendency to seek a coherent and logical ending to an open issue or incomplete task.

Interposition

A visual cue for depth perception that occurs when one object partly blocks another; it can provide information about the relative positions and distances of objects in space.

Bottom-Up Processing

Information processing in which individual components or bits of data are combined until a complete perception is formed.