A Shift in Weather Patterns Causes a Drought

Multiple Choice

A shift in weather patterns causes a drought. The normally moist forest becomes dry, with the leaf litter on the forest floor blowing away in high winds. The creek, which normally overflows and floods the forest floor every time it rains, dries up. What would you expect to happen to the slime molds that live in the area?

A) The plasmodium would expand and colonize the now -clean forest floor.
B) The slime mold would begin making red photosynthetic pigments.
C) The slime mold would begin parasitizing humans.
D) Dry conditions would encourage the slime mold to photosynthesize.
E) The slime molds would shift from the plasmodium and form fruiting bodies.