A Number of Mosquito Populations Today Are Resistant to Specific

question 15

Multiple Choice

A number of mosquito populations today are resistant to specific insecticides,even though those insecticides were highly effective when they were first introduced.Biologists believe that insecticide resistance evolved in mosquitoes because

• A) individual mosquitoes built up an immunity to an insecticide after being exposed to it.
• B) mosquitoes needed to develop insecticide resistance to survive after the insecticide was used.
• C) a few mosquitoes were probably resistant to the insecticide before it was ever used.These survived and passed that trait on to their offspring.
• D) the presence of the insecticide caused some mosquitoes to develop resistance;they survived and passed the trait to their offspring.
• E) current mosquito populations are phenotypically variable and exhibit different levels of fitness in different environments.

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