A farmer often sprays a certain kind of insecticide, a chemical that kills insects, on his plants to prevent locust bugs from eating all of his corn crops. One day there was a random change in the sequence of DNA in a locust egg cell. When the egg cell hatched, the locust was resistant to the insecticide (it would not be killed by it). Since that locust could survive and reproduce, natural selection occurred until the entire population evolved to become resistant.
A) Identify the variation that existed in the insect population. _________________________________
B) Identify the process that created this variation. _________________________________
C) Explain why the variations in the insect population would be passed on to the next generation.
D) Is this locust population likely to survive, why or why not?