The type of selection that occurs when a population experiences a shift in diversity toward the larger organisms is a directional selection.
What is a selection?
- It is a phenomenon by which some organisms have better advantage at surviving than the others of the same species.
- These organisms prevail and are reproductively more successful than the others.
What is a directional selection?
- It is the type of selection in which an extreme phenotype is selected and the rest are at a disadvantage.
- "The allele frequency is shifted in the direction of that phenotype.
What is a disruptive selection?
It is the type of selection in which both the extreme phenotypes are favored than the others.
What is a stabilizing selection?
- It is the opposite of directional selection.
- In this the mean phenotype is selected and the extreme phenotypes are not.
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