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 Form 4 Biology questions and answers on evolution

Explain the evolutionary basis for the ever changing drugs for malaria treatment.

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- When plasmodium are exposed to malarial drugs for long, some possess a resistant gene or acquire the gene through mutation hence survive
the drug. The mutant transmits this trait to their offspring establishing a new population of resistant form/mutant.


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