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marusya05 [52]
2 years ago
15

A farmer sprays his corn crop with pesticides each year. After 10 years, he realizes that the pesticides are no longer functioni

ng to kill the pests and his crop has been destroyed. Explain to the farmer how this happened. In your answer, be sure to
explain how the resistance came about
why the pesticide work in the beginning but no longer works
what he can do to fix this problem
Biology
2 answers:
Leokris [45]2 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The pesticides are worn off by the weather.

Explanation:

Becuase the chemicals can only work for a little in the pesticides so when bad weather comes around it finishes the rest of the chemicals in the pesticide.

Hope this Helps :)

nexus9112 [7]2 years ago
5 0

Probably insects developed resistance to the pesticide.

Explanation:

The term resistance refers to an inheritable change in the population sensitivity,. In the exposed example, the first time that the farmer sprayed the pesticide, the insect population decrease sharply. This means that the chemical affected them severely. They probably passed this modification to the following generations, which expressed it, and developed resistance to the pesticide.

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