AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Disruptive selection occurs when individuals of intermediate phenotype are less fit than those of both higher and lower phenotype, such that extremes are favored. This may occur if there are two diverse food sources or predators with diverse preferences for, say, size of prey.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stabilizing selection is the opposite of disruptive selection. This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.

Detailed explanation-3: -disruptive selection: (or diversifying selection) a mode of natural selection in which extreme values for a trait are favored over intermediate values. stabilizing selection: a type of natural selection in which genetic diversity decreases as the population stabilizes on a particular trait value.