different types of selection

Question 1

what type of selection favours the intermediate phenotype

Answer 1

stabilising

Question 2

what type of selection favours one extreme of the phenotype

Answer 2

directional selection

Question 3

what is genetic drift

Answer 3

the process by which allele frequencies change due to chance

Question 4

does genetic drift have a larger impact on smaller or larger populations

Answer 4

smaller

Question 5

what is the name for a sudden dramatic reduction in the size of a population

Answer 5

genetic bottleneck

Question 6

what is the founder effect

Answer 6

the process by which members of a large population break away and form a new population