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To determine:
The type of natural selection (directional, disruptive or stabilizing) in situation where heterozygotes for a certain locus in a population have extreme phenotype that confers a selective advantage.
Introduction:
Natural selection is processes by which organisms are tend to adapt the environment and produce more offsprings of particular traits. Natural selection: are of 3 types (a) stabilizing selection; in which an average phenotype is favored, (b) directional selection; in which the change in the environment change the wide range of
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