Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Blog #4

Describe the three types of selection: directional, stabilizing and disruptive and give an example of each in your own words.

Directional Selection:
any genetic selection that shifts the population mean in the direction wanted by the breeder.

Stabilizing Selection:
the selection that the heterozygotes have the advantage

Disruptive Selection:
the slection that the natural selection favors the phenotypic extremes

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