Choice B is incorrect because ingenuous means innocent and a little girl who is in trouble isn't innocent.
Answer and Explanation:
One of the main themes presented in the article is the question of who is in charge of our life. This is because the text presents three characters who live their lives in the best possible way, but were surprised by the force of nature, which when rising the sea level threatens to flood the city where they live. This threat completely changes the lives of these characters and it can change their destiny. Hence the question: is the destiny of the human being controlled by himself, by nature or by another element?
The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger sections of genes or chromosomes.
The italicized part if the sentence (vice president) is the predicate noun. A predicate noun renames the subject and follows a linking verb.