A farmer uses triazine herbicide to control pigweed in his field. For the first few years, the triazine works well and almost al

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A farmer uses triazine herbicide to control pigweed in his field. For the first few years, the triazine works well and almost al

l the pigweed dies; but after several years, the farmer sees more and more pigweed. Which of these statements explains why the pigweed re-appeared?A) Natural selection caused the pigweed to mutate, creating a new triazine-resistant species. B) The herbicide company lost its triazine formula and started selling poor-quality triazine. C) Triazine-resistant pigweed has less efficient photosynthesis metabolism. D) Only triazine-resistant weeds survived and reproduced, so each year more pigweed was triazine-resistant.

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erik [133] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-07T07:59:14+03:00

Answer:

A) Natural selection caused the pigweed to mutate, creating a new triazine-resistant species.

Explanation:

Due to constant use of triazine, the weed will build resistance to it over time unlocking the herbicides codes and making it ineffective.

Natural selection will play out allowing this weeds to bring about a sudden change in their genome that will become resistance, this resistance breed is what will then be produced over time because mutation is heritable and the herbicide then becomes ineffective and the weed continues to multiply and increase in volume.