How does Darwin’s theory of natural selection explain the increase in the number of antibiotic resistant pests in our ecosystem ?
How does Darwin’s theory of natural selection explain the increase in the number of antibiotic resistant pests in our ecosystem ?
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Pests have (built in) variations in terms of their ability to survive in a given environment, a change in the environment, in the form of an antibiotic would bring out (select) , that part of population that can survive under new environment, in due course of time the variant/ resistant population reproduces/ outgrows, the other, and appears as an antibiotic resistant pest species
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