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Select , se·lect / səˈlekt/ • v. [tr.] carefully choose as being the best or most suitable: students must select their own program | [tr.] he has been selecte… Stabilizing Selection , stabilizing selection(maintenance evolution, normalizing selection) Natural selection that selects against extremes at either end of the range of phe… disruptive selection , disruptive selection Selection that changes the frequency of alleles in a divergent manner, leading to the fixation of alternative alleles in members… Directional Selection , directional selection Natural selection that favours the establishment of one particular advantageous mutation within a population, resulting in a ch… Selection , Selection refers to an evolutionary pressure that is the result of a combination of environmental and genetic pressures that affect the ability of an… Selective Breeding , Selective breeding is evolution by human selection. As nineteenth-century British naturalist Charles Darwin noted in Variation of Animals and Plants…
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