Patterns Of Selection

Favours those individuals who have extreme variations in traits within a population

Causes the allele frequency to continuously shifts in two directions.

Favours the norm, the common, average traits in a population.

Sexual dimorphism.

The size of newborn human babies.

The number of eggs in a typical robin’s next.

Both A and C are examples of stabilizing selection.

All of the above.

Sexual selection is the same as natural selection.

Sexual selection is the opposite of natural selection.

Sexual selection is a type of natural selection.

For males, the number of offspring they can produce is limited by the number of matings they can gain.

For females, the number of offspring they produce is limited by the resources it takes to create and care for each offspring.

Males often compete against each other for females.

Females often choose among males to select the best father.

For both males and females, the more times they mate, the more offspring they can have.

Is the measurement that determines how frequent the allele expression of a particular gene arises in a population.

Is a type of gene.

Is a process of gradual, peaceful, progressive change or development, as in social or economic structure or institutions.

Is a pattern formed by or as if by a series of movements.