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Apperance of dark-coloured peppered moths among the light-coloured ones as a result of increased industrial pollution is an example of

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Disruptive selection

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Stabilising selection

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Directional selection

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None of the above

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Directional selection is the natural selection that favours the establishment of one particular advantageous mutation within a population, resulting in a change in phenotype in that direction.
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