Directional 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.

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Directional selection occurs when individuals at one extreme of a trait distribution have a higher fitness than individuals at the other extreme, leading to a shift in the population's trait distribution in that direction.

Directional Selection Occurs When