Apedia

Sheep Condition Diazinon Resistance Describe Human Activity Resulted

The sheep blowfly evolved resistance to the pesticide diazinon within six years due to intensive use, as resistant individuals survived and reproduced, passing on their advantageous traits.

The sheep blowfly evolved resistance to the pesticide diazinon within six years due to intensive use, as resistant individuals survived and reproduced, passing on their advantageous traits.

Front Describe how human activity has resulted in evolution in populations of the Sheep blowfly.
Back Sheep blowfly:
  • They cause fatal condition for sheep - flystrike
  • In 1950s, used diazinon pesticide to kill them and prevent hte condition
  • Within 6 years, they developed resistance to diazinon - individual insects with resistance survived and passed on their advantageous characteristics through their alleles, allowing resistant population to evolve

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Energy atp explain life perform respiration living organisms

Previous card: Waste nylon describe human activity resulted evolution populations

Up to card list: A-Level Biology OCR A