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Launch ↗ Bed Bug Treatment Lab
When a pesticide kills most of a population, the few individuals carrying a resistance allele survive and pass it on, so that allele grows more common each generation. This is natural selection in a pest species, and it explains why a treatment can stop working. Here you compare control methods and watch allele frequencies shift in response.
Launch InteractiveTopics covered
- Natural selection
- Pesticide resistance
- Allele frequency change
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
- Selective pressure
- Integrated pest management