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Summary AQA ALEVEL BIOLOGY NOTES ON TYPES OF NATURAL SELECTION
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Types of Natural Selectioneffect of
The natural selection allele
frequencies depends the selection the population
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on on
pressures acting on .
There 3 types selection disruptive selection
stabilising selection directional
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Selection for individuals with
Selection against one extreme extreme
phenotypes .
phenotype .
phenotypes rather than those with
Preserves of of of
phenotype changes the
phenotypes phenotypes around the
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mean
average a
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a
population by favouring average population by favouring phenotypes
the population .
of selection
individuals . that
vary
in one direction from the
-
The opposite stabilising
mean of the
population .
Example : Fur
length in mammals
( SPEC EXAMPLE : Human birth rates ) Example : Bird Beak Size
Example : Cheetah speeds
Optimum fur
( SPEC Example : Antibiotic
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years
when
speed
average temperature is warmer or
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Individuals that have alleles for 1 Birds with and small beak
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large
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consistently increased speed are more likely to alleles more likely to survive as
around 10°C individuals with catch than slower individuals environment of
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increases .
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Frequency of alleles for large and
small beaks increases .
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