If the weather in Richmond, Virginia suddenly changed to very cold (snow on the ground 8 months of each year) over the next few years, what change might possibly
occur in the squirrel population there?
A) Natural selection would cause a new genotype to appear in the population,
resulting in squirrels with white fur.
B) The cold weather would cause a mutation in squirrels which causes their fur
to be white.
C) Natural selection would not permit such climatic changes.
D) Evolution would definitely occur resulting in white squirrels.
E) If a mutation happened to occur which caused white fur to develop, such
white squirrels would have a better chance to survive and produce more
offspring with the characteristic.