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A company develops a new pesticide that kills insects. When the pesticide is first used, it kills nearly all the insects. Which statement explains why after 10 years, nearly all the insects can tolerate the pesticide and survive? A. The company needed to apply another application since all of the insects were immediately resistant to the pesticide. Those resistant insects survived and reproduced, passing on traits that helped them survive onto their mutant offspring.

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Resistant insects would reproduce and pass on the tolerance making the pesticide obsolete.
Those resistant insects survived and reproduced, passing on traits that helped them survive onto their mutant offspring.