Directional & Stabilising Selection Flashcards

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Environmental factors that affect the chance of survival of an organism are

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selection pressures

For example, there could be high competition for food between lions if there is not plentiful prey available; this environmental factor ‘selects’ for faster, more powerful lions that are better hunters

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These selection pressures can have different effects on the allele frequencies of a population through natural selection
There are different types of selection:

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directional and stabilising

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