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Which characteristics of an insect population enable it to adapt and develop

resistance to a pesticide more quickly?

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Resistance in insects develops when the same insecticide (or class of insecticides) is used against a pest population over and over again. Some insects will survive the same dose that kills their friends. Those that survive pass on that survival trait to their offspring.

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