True or False. Alcohol is toxic to most fruit flies, but fruit flies that metabolize alcohol quickly survive alcohol exposure better than normal metabolizers. Assume that about 10% of the fruit flies in

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True or False. Alcohol is toxic to most fruit flies, but fruit flies that metabolize alcohol quickly survive alcohol exposure better than normal metabolizers. Assume that about 10% of the fruit flies in a normal laboratory population consists of these fast alcohol-metabolizing flies. Now you expose all of the fruit flies to alcohol and let them interbreed.