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factors affecting biological diversity
which organisms are most likely to survive in a population in which disruptive selection is occurring?
organisms that are
the largest and
strongest
organisms that
have the greatest
number of offspring
organisms that
have extreme traits
organisms that
have average traits
Disruptive selection (also called diversifying selection) favors extreme phenotypes over intermediate (average) ones. So organisms with extreme traits are selected for, while those with average traits are selected against. The "largest and strongest" is a specific extreme, but disruptive selection is about extreme traits in general (not just size/strength), and "greatest number of offspring" is about fecundity not directly related to disruptive selection's mechanism. Thus, the organisms with extreme traits fit the definition of disruptive selection.
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organisms that have extreme traits