Do you think if you kept frogs in an isolated area filled with highly chlorinate

N/A · April 03, 2016, 11:24:13 PM

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Jocephalopod · April 03, 2016, 11:40:59 PM

if the original stock survived and reproduced then ye i don't see why not.

Elai · April 03, 2016, 11:52:15 PM

Over time, the resistant frogs would produce more resistant frogs, which would then proceed to have offspring with other more resistant frogs which would result in even more resistant frogs. Yes. You'd also need a diverse gene pool.

Raises some serious ethical questions, though.

eggsalad · April 03, 2016, 11:55:07 PM

Depends how it effects their functioning. It would weed out ones vulnerable to the substance, but if the benefits of being more resistant are marginal, you're just going to get a bunch of adequately resistant frogs.

N/A · April 04, 2016, 12:02:11 AM

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Elai · April 04, 2016, 12:07:49 AM

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Over time, the resistant frogs would produce more resistant frogs, which would then proceed to have offspring with other more resistant frogs which would result in even more resistant frogs. Yes. You'd also need a diverse gene pool.

Raises some serious ethical questions, though.
God I wish I was in middle school as a student so I could do this experiment as my science project.

The experiment would likely take decades before any data would show tangibly higher resistance rates.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · April 04, 2016, 12:09:14 AM

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Sandtrap · April 04, 2016, 12:13:41 AM

It'd be like those wolves in Chernobyl.

Resistant to radiation more so than most.

But still full of cancer.

Elai · April 04, 2016, 12:31:31 AM

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Maybe something that reproduces and dies faster? Bacteria?

Definitely possible, but like eggsalad said, it would really depend on what type of evolutionary advantage the higher resistance to chlorine would provide.

snee0rp · April 05, 2016, 09:45:57 PM

No. You'd just kill all the frogs.

Maybe you could breed one resistant frog after killing several thousand frogs.

Turkey · April 05, 2016, 10:35:19 PM

You'd probably just exterminate their population. Evolution is an incredibly long process, and takes much more than a few generations.

Mike · April 08, 2016, 01:24:11 AM

I've found frogs in a swimming pool. That's chlorinated, and there were no super frogs there.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · April 08, 2016, 03:19:56 AM

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