Answer:
The correct answer will be- a microorganism can mutate or change with time and can become virulent.
Explanation:
If a bacteria is considered harmless or avirulent then the bacteria will not necessarily affect the animal species.
But when the species come into contact with other sick species caused by the microbe will make the bacteria virulent. This shows that bacteria can change with time depending on the environment it is living in.
Thus in the given question, bacteria can change and mutate with time and can become virulent from avirulent species.