Suppose a novel enzyme that deactivates the cane toad toxin evolved in a snake population exposed to cane toads. If the researchers repeated part 1 of this study, predict how the results would change.

Predation is a negative species interaction in which one creature feeds on another. Natural selection enhances both predator and prey adaptations because both must eat and avoid being eaten to reproduce.

Predators’ population depends on the number of preys present in their area.

The objective of the experiment: Is it possible for a native predator to adapt quickly to an introduced prey species by experimenting with snakes' resistance to the cane toads toxins?

Snakes and other potential predators are poisoned by a toxin produced by the cane toad’s glands; unless snakes can avoid the poison and become predators by consuming cane toads in the following years.

A change in an organism's property allows cane toads to grow a quick alterationin their body by secreting a poison that kills the snakes that eat them, allowing the next generation to live, known as adaption.

Australian black snakes show rapid adaptation to a lethally poisonous prey item, the cane toad, both in eating behavior and physiology to poisons.