5.If the weather in Richmond, Virginia, changed to very cold (snow on the ground 8 months of each year) over the next few years, what change might occur? a. The cold weather would cause a mutation in squirrels which causes their fur to be white.

b. If a mutation occurred which caused white fur to develop, such white squirrels would have a better chance to survive and produce more offspring with the characteristic.

c. Evolution would definitely occur resulting in white squirrels.

d. Natural selection would cause a new genotype to appear in the population, resulting in squirrels with white fur.

e. Natural selection would not permit such climatic changes.