A bird population once had short, medium, and long beaks. In a place with only deep flowers for food, most bir

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A bird population once had short, medium, and long beaks. In a place with only deep flowers for food, most birds now have long beaks. Which type of selection is this?

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Responses

Stabilizing selection
Stabilizing selection

Disruptive selection
Disruptive selection

Directional selection
Directional selection

Artificial selection

GPT-5 mini · Answer

Directional selection.

Reason: the environment favors one extreme trait (long beaks), shifting the population mean toward that extreme.

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