antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis

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Q: O Stabilizing selection O Directional selection O Disruptional selection

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A: Allele  Allele is a variant form of a gene present on chromosome.

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A: Introduction :- F1 and F2 generation are used to show the results of crossing over . F1 shows the…