<em>Pest resistance occurs when pests (insects, small animals, mites, weeds, and so on) are able to withstand insecticides and thus are not affected. Pest resistance is thought to be a feature of these species. Because of their unique genetic makeup, a small part of the pest population may survive exposure to a pesticide when it is first employed. These people pass on their resistant genes to the following generation.</em>
Many consider the Cuban Missile Crisis to be the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis as it was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to actual nuclear war.
At the Constitutional Convention, it was the proposal that representation in Congress would be proportional to the population size of the state that caused smaller states to become upset.
