What type of natural selection is displayed in the scenario below:If thicker-shelled oysters are more resistant to breakage than thinner-shelled oysters, crabs will be less able to prey upon them, and thicker-shelled oysters will be more likely to survive to reproduce.

EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION

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A	Directional
B	Disruptive
C	Stabilizing
D	Darwainian

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -If thick-shelled oysters are tougher to crack open then thinner-shelled oysters, crabs will be less able to prey upon them, and thick shelled oysters will be more likely to survive and reproduce.

Detailed explanation-2: -One example of disruptive selection is dark and light-colored oysters. Both dark-colored oysters and light-colored oysters have camouflage advantages. Light-colored oysters will blend with the rocks and dark-colored oysters can hide under the rock shadow.

Detailed explanation-3: -Disruptive selection is a specific type of natural selection that actively selects against the intermediate in a population, favoring both extremes of the spectrum. Disruptive selection is inferred to oftentimes lead to sympatric speciation through a phyletic gradualism mode of evolution.

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