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11.2 Natural Selection in Populations

Populations, not individuals, evolve.

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normal distributiondistribution in a population in which allele frequency is highest near the mean range value and decreases progressively toward each extreme end
microevolutionobservable change in the allele frequencies of a population over a few generations
directional selectionpathway of natural selection in which one uncommon phenotype is selected over a more common phenotype
stabilizing selectionpathway of natural selection in which intermediate phenotypes are selected over phenotypes at both extremes
disruptive selectionpathway of natural selection in which tow opposite, but equally common, phenotypes are selected over the most common phenotype


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Blue Valley Northwest High School
Overland Park, KS

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