If you wanted to see natural selection working in a population of mosquitoes in response to pesticide, how much pesticide should you use?

A) enough to kill most but not all the mosquitoes
B) enough to kill all the mosquitoes
C) just enough so that the mosquitoes will be exposed but not enough to kill any of them
D) enough to kill the weakest 1% of the mosquitoes


A

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