People spray pesticides on crops to kill insects that eat and destroy crops. however, these insects are becoming resistant to the pesticides. Explain how this could happen.

if a person takes antibiotics, the resistant bacteria will die. if this process continues, most of the bacteria population will have the trait for antibiotic resistance. if antibiotics are taken rarely, the population will not have time to adapt, and the bacteria will die. the more antibiotics are taken, the more chance the bacteria have to adapt and develop resistance

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Yasmin Graham

9 May, 14:42

People spray pesticides on crops to kill insects that eat and destroy crops. however, these insects are becoming resistant to the pesticides. Explain how this could happen.

if a person takes antibiotics, the resistant bacteria will die. if this process continues, most of the bacteria population will have the trait for antibiotic resistance. if antibiotics are taken rarely, the population will not have time to adapt, and the bacteria will die. the more antibiotics are taken, the more chance the bacteria have to adapt and develop resistance

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Yoselin Ramirez · Answer 1

Since the bugs are being sprayed by the pesticides so often they start to build resistance just like how people build tolerance to alcohol. The more often the bugs get sprayed with pesticides the more they can tolerate and adapt to the pesticides.