Evolution: Part 7: Types of Natural Selection

Question 1

Note:

Answer 1

The process of Natural Selection can alter the frequency of inherited traits depending in which phenotypes are preferred.

Question 2

What are the three types of Natural Selection?

Answer 2

Stabilizing Selection, Diversifying or Disruptive Selection, and Directional Selection.

Question 3

Stabilizing Selection

Answer 3

Eliminates the number of extreme forms and favors the more intermediate forms.

Question 4

Diversifying or Disruptive Selection

Answer 4

Increases the Number of extreme forms in a population at the expense of the intermediate forms.

Question 5

Directional Selection

Answer 5

Changing Environmental conditions, where one phenotype replaces the other.