Disruptive selection occurs when

A. the environment controls which organisms will survive.
B. humans determine which organisms will survive.
C. the extremes of the population have a lesser chance to survive.
D. the extremes of the population have a better chance to survive.
E. the organisms on one extreme of the population have a better chance to survive than those on the other extreme.


Answer: D

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