Stabilizing selection favors the norm/average and selects against extremes, reducing the frequency of alleles at the extremes and increasing average alleles; birth weight is an example.
La sélection stabilisatrice favorise la moyenne et désavantage les extrêmes, réduisant la fréquence des allèles aux extrémités et augmentant celle des allèles moyens ; un exemple est le poids à la naissance.
| Front | Define the term stabilising selection & describe the consequences of it for a population. + give example |
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| Back | Stabilising selection - norm/average is selected for and extremes are selected against
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