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Compare and contrast directional selection and disruptive selection, and provide an example of each.
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- Explain the difference between Disruptive Selection & Directional Selection ?Describe the similarities and differences between the stabilizing, directional, and disruptive selection models.answers: Disruptive selection, Directional Selection, Stabilizing selection, Hardy-Weinburg selection. Which is correct for the stated question?
- Explain how negative frequency-dependent selection works.Describe the competing selective forces acting on peacock tails. Together, do these selective forces produce disruptive, directional, or stabilizing selection?Explain, draw, and provide example of directional, stabilizing and disruptive selection.
- Compare and contrast direct and indirect selection.In the following form of selection, one extreme of a variable character is selected for: Directional Selection Stabilizing Selection Disruptive SelectionWhich type of selection is represented from a population of mice living in the forest where only dark colored fur survive? Disruptive Directional Stabalizing
- describe selection, confounding, and information bias provide an example for eachUnder which of the following scenarios would variation be maintained? Selection acting on a dominant high fitness allele Selection acting on a recessive high fitness allele Selection favoring heterozygotes Selection acting against heterozygotes None of the aboveWhy does the response to selection often level off after many generations of selection?
