Question

At the end of last semester, your professor had a baby. In class,she notes that her baby weighed 7.2 lbs at birth. The other babiesborn in the hospital that week weighed 7.0 lbs, 6.8 lbs, 9.2 lbs, 7.5lbs, and 7.3 lbs. What phenomenon does this pattern of birthweights represent?Select one:
a. no selection
b. disruptive selection
c. directional selection
d. stabilizing selection

Answer 1

Answer:

d. stabilizing selection

Explanation:

Stabilizing selection is a sort of natural selection that involves the stabilizing of population mean at a specific non extreme value of trait.

This method is the among the common mechanisms of action for natural selection.

This is due to the fact that most traits do not seems to vary drastically over time.