Disruptive selection is one of three main forms of natural selection. In disruptive selection, extremes of visible characteristics or traits (phenotypes) enjoy a greater reproductive success than do intermediate characteristics or traits. Because it is...

Disruptive selection is a special form of directional selection. By choosing two phenotypic extremes within a population, successive breeding can be carried out to produce two discontinuous strains. For example, if a plant breeder breeds the longest...

Suppose there is a population of rabbits. The color of the rabbits is governed by two incompletely dominant traits: black fur represented by “B” and white fur represented by “b”. A rabbit with the genotype of “BB” would have a phenotype of...