The point at which the rate that a deleterious allele is being eliminated from a population by natural selection is in equilibrium with the rate at which the deleterious allele is being replaced by a new mutation is termed ________

A) mutation-dependent selection
B) frequency-dependent selection
C) mutation-dependent equilibrium
D) mutation-selection balance


D

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