Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains why a pathogen is generally more virulent in a new habitat?
A) Intermediate host species are more motile and transport pathogens to new areas.
B) Pathogens evolve more efficient forms of reproduction in new environments.
C) Hosts in new environments have not had a chance to become resistant to the pathogen through natural selection.
D) New environments are almost always smaller in area so that transmission of pathogens is easily accomplished between hosts.
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