When a Child Lives with Both Parents, and Each Parent

question 4

Multiple Choice

When a child lives with both parents, and each parent subscribes to a different health insurance plan, the primary and secondary policies are determined by applying the birthday rule. The individual who holds the primary policy for dependent children is the spouse whose birth __________.

• A) day occurs earlier in the month
• B) month and day occur earlier in the calendar year
• C) month, day, and year occur earlier
• D) year occurs earlier

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, a key mechanism of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin.

Landscape Genetics

An interdisciplinary field that combines landscape ecology and population genetics to study the effects of the environment on the genetic variation of species.

Evolution

The mechanism by which diverse species of organisms are considered to have emerged and varied from their predecessors over the course of the Earth's history.

Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution that causes allele frequencies to change randomly over time due to chance events.