You survey another population and find the following genotype frequencies: AA: 400 Aa: 200 aa:400. You note that the population is not in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium and propose that natural selection explains the observed imbalance in the genotype frequencies. If your hypothesis is correct what type of natural selection is causing this imbalance? Overdominance Underdominance Directional Selection
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