Which of the following is most likely to produce an African butterfly species in the wild whose members have one pattern?
A)artificial selection
B)directional selection
C)stabilizing selection
D)disruptive selection

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Stabilizing selection favors the intermediate phenotype in a population, and can result in fewer variations in appearance. In the case of African butterfly species, if there were individuals with different patterns (e.g. spotted and striped), stabilizing selection would favor those with patterns that were more similar to each other, resulting in the population having one dominant pattern.

Which of the Following Is Most Likely to Produce an African