Q12 / 60 · IAT (IISER) 2019 · Biology

The following plots represent the body size distributions of a fruit fly population. Dashed lines represent the ancestral distributions and continuous lines represent the distributions after a few generations. If the larger individuals have better survival as well as higher reproductive rates, which diagram below best represents the expected change in the distribution of body size (X-axis represents body size while Y-axis represents frequency)?

  • A
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  • B
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  • Correct answer
    C
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  • D
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Hence, the correct answer is option: 'C'.