Asked by martin

A farmer has applied a pesticide to control a pest population that is affecting her crops. The pest population has reacted as shown below.

A chart begins with 4 green bugs and 1 brown bug. The brown bug survives and produces brown offspring.
Which best describes the process that the pest population has experienced due to this environmental change?
genetic diversity
natural selection
natural resistance
gene flow

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Natural selection.

The pesticide is a selective pressure: the brown, resistant bug survives and reproduces, increasing the frequency of the resistant trait in the population.