What pattern of selection is being shown in the picture below?* Selection against the mean Population after selection Original population O Disruptive Selection Stabilizing Selection O Directional Selection Neutral Selection

Q: Which of the following is NOT typically used in the process of indirect selection? Question…

A: Natural selection is a phenomenon in which the organisms best suited in the environment are adapted…

Q: Selection at one locus that maintains multiple alleles in the population at equilibrium is called:…

A: The question is asking about a type of natural selection that maintains genetic diversity in a…

Q: Which factor listed below most likely results in the loss of genetic variation from small…

A: Answer: Introduction: Inbreeding, genetic drift, restricted gene flow, and small population size all…

Q: How do directional, disruptive, and stabilizing selection differ? Provide an example for each type…

A: Within the realm of evolution, natural selection stands as a pivotal process wherein traits…

Q: Which of the following is a FALSE statement?     Inbreeding non-random mating will increase the…

A: Inbreeding non-random mating will increase the number of homozygotes. This statement is true.…

Q: This species of Squirrel involves multiple males fighting, the strongest performs a specific dance…

A: According to Darwin there is natural selection, artificial selection, sexual selection in order to…

Q: An allele occurs at a frequency of 0.19 in a population. Assuming it is neutral to selection, what…

A: The number of times the allele of interest is observed in a population is divided by the total…

Q: O Stabilizing selection O Directional selection O Disruptional selection

A: Natural selection is a theory proposed by Darwin which describes that individual organisms with…

Q: When we take, say, 100 individuals of a species of beetle from the wild and place them in a new…

A: Each environment that an organism inhabits is distinct from the others. Its natural habitat is…

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A: An adaptive allele has a higher chance of disappearing or being lost in a population with a small…

Q: The following conditions are required for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium: Mutation, non-random mating,…

A: The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is a principle stating that the genetic variation in a population…

Q: What type of selection occurs when one extreme population phenotype is favored? Group of answer…

A: Natural selection is the process through which individuals with various phenotypes survive and…

Q: In a population of birds, the average beak size is selected against, while large and small beak…

A: Answer: ADAPTATION : It is the ability of an individual to alter or changes the physical and…

Q: Frequency of allele A, 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 20 100 Choose all that apply. This figure refers to…

A: The question you described seems to be based on the concept of genetic drift, which is a random…

Q: People with two copies of the sickle cell gene are often quite ill with sickle cell anemia, while…

A: Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disease which affects the hemoglobin molecules.It was first…

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Q: In terms of natural selection, what is a "detrimental mutation"? O One that has a negative effect on…

A: A mutation is a sudden change in the sequence of the organism's genome. It arises due to replication…

Q: Explain how stabilizing selection, directional selection, and disruptive selection affect the…

A: Natural selection is defined as the process by which living organisms having traits that better…

Q: Which of the following are examples of balancing selection? (select all that apply) Sickle-cell…

A: Balancing selection is a way of conserving genetic polymorphism. Usually in a population…

Q: Over time, Lizard tails have become shorter than the longest tail but longer than the shortest tail,…

A: Selection in evolution is the process by which heritable traits become more or less common in a…

Q: People have only begun to use artificial selection in the last hundred years, as new technologies…

A: Artificial selection is also known as selective breeding. It refers to the selection and breeding of…

Q: Selection operates on a trait with a normal distribution. If after selection, the mean in the trait…

A: Natural selection is a phenomenon by which population undergoes evolution. It favors certain alleles…

Q: Three modes of selection: The Directional Selection bigger is always better, Stabilizing Selection…

A: A disruptive selection is a mode of natural selection method where the extreme trait characteristics…

Q: Each of the following has a better chance of influencing genotype frequencies in small populations…

A: Genetic Drift is a Correct Answer :

Q: On the right is human infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) vs. birth weight (kgs) in the US…

A: Natural selection is of three types  Stabilising selection Directional selection Disruptive…

Q: If natural selection is the only force acting on this population from generation to generation, what…

A: Answer - Option C - The frequency of the D allele will increase

Q: In a population of birds, the climate becomes colder over time. Birds with larger bodies and thicker…

A: By a process called natural selection, organisms that have characteristics that increase their…

Q: Vhich of the following comparisons between natural and sexual selection between is FALSE? Variation…

A: The environment is ever changing. The change has been a source of adaptations inhabiting the…

Q: Which of the following principles of selection are true for both the sickle cell and rock pocket…

A: The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to phenotype differences is natural…

Q: Why is "fitness" in selection referred to "relative fitness"? Group of answer choices A_"Relative…

A: The change in the heritable characteristics of the species across many generations is called…

Q: Five conditions are required to maintain the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium in a population. Closed…

A: Introduction:When a population rises Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for the a gene, evolution ceases and…

Q: What effect does stabilizing selection have on a population?   The average population moves toward…

A: Stabilizing selection is a type of natural selection that favors the intermediate or average…

Q: Explain, draw, and provide example of directional, stabilizing and disruptive selection.

A: Alteration in the inheritable traits, over long periods, can happen in a population. It is…

Q: Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, is an extremely rare, progressive genetic disorder that causes children…

A: Mutations in the LMNA gene cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. Here, we have to select the…

Pre-Darwinian Concepts