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(30 points) Mosquitoes can carry and transmit many diseases to humans. In the past, the insecticide DDT was heavily used to reduce mosquito populations in order to reduce instances of disease transmission. However, after some time, mosquito populations developed a resistance to DDT, which made the DDT less effective in reducing mosquito populations.

Based on what you’ve learned about natural selection, in 3–5 sentences, describe how mosquitoes may have come to develop this resistance.

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Mosquitoes resistant to DDT are also immune to mosquito net insecticide. A single genetic mutation causes resistance to DDT and pyrethroids according to new research in the diary Genome Biology.

What is DDT and why was it banned?

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an insecticide used in agri company . The United States prohibited the use of DDT in 1972. Some nations outside the United States still use DDT to manage of mosquitoes that laid malaria.

Thus, Mosquitoes resistant to DDT are also resistant to mosquito net insecticide.

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