NEET Biology question

Bird with average sized wings survived in the severe strom but the short winged birds died. It shows

(A)Stabilizing selectionCorrect
(B)Gene flow
(C)Diversifying selection
(D)Founder effect

Answer: (A)

Solution

Stabilizing selection. Selection process in natural selection are (i) Stabilizing Selection (Balancing selections) This type of selection favours average sized individuals, while eliminates small sized individuals. It reduces variation and hence, do not promote evolutionary changes. It maintains the mean value from

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