Multiple Choice
A group is experimenting with selection in a mouse model for a disease that is lethal in mid- life. After 30 generations of exposure, the population's average life span is near that of a wild- type mouse population. What type of selection did the model mouse population undergo?
A) disruptive selection
B) directional selection
C) threshold effect
D) additive genes
E) stabilizing selection
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