If You Wanted to See Natural Selection Working in a Population

question 57

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to see natural selection working in a population of mosquitoes in response to pesticide, how much pesticide should you use?

• A) enough to kill most but not all the mosquitoes
• B) enough to kill all the mosquitoes
• C) just enough so that the mosquitoes will be exposed but not enough to kill any of them
• D) enough to kill the weakest 1% of the mosquitoes

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