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You are growing a vegetable garden and discover that insect pests are eating your tomato plants with a chemical that kills the insects. This chemical works the first year, but the second year you try again and the chemical is not effective. By the third year, the insects are still eating the plants even after repeated spraying with the chemical. Which statements are accurate regarding what happened to the insect population? Choose all accurate statements. in each generation more insects had the resistant mutation the insects with the resistant mutation reproduced more than insects without the mutation Devolution by natural selection had occurred O the insects mutated after being sprayed so that they could survive The first year a few of the insects survived because, by chance, they had been born with a mutation that prevented the chemical from killing them the chemical caused the insects to evolve into a new species that was unaffected by pesticides the mutation the surviving insects had occurred by chance, before the chemical was sprayed on them the chemical caused the insects' genes to mutate so that the insects could reproduce