Within a decade of the introduction of a new insecticide, nearly all of the descendants of the target pests were immune to the insecticide. What is the most likely explanation for this immunity?(1 point)

Question

Within a decade of the introduction of a new insecticide, nearly all of the descendants of the target pests were immune to the insecticide. What is the most likely explanation for this immunity?(1 point)
Responses

Eating the insecticide caused the bugs to become immune.
Eating the insecticide caused the bugs to become immune.

Some insects were immune due to a mutation and those insects were able to survive and pass their beneficial genes to their offspring.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

The most likely explanation for the immunity of the descendants of the target pests to the new insecticide is that some insects were immune due to a mutation, and those insects were able to survive and pass their beneficial genes to their offspring. This is an example of natural selection, where the individuals with traits that confer resistance to the insecticide survive and reproduce, leading to an increase in the frequency of those resistant genes in the population over time.