After a Hurricane, the Prices of Many Items Rise

question 309

Multiple Choice

After a hurricane, the prices of many items rise. How BEST might the government help poor people be able to afford to buy goods and services?

• A) institute price controls at pre-hurricane prices
• B) set prices at zero, so consumers can buy what they need without financial distress
• C) give poor people debit cards for use in purchasing essential items, while leaving prices unregulated
• D) institute a wage freeze to keep the costs of production from rising too rapidly

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Definitions:

Termination

End of translation that occurs when a ribosome reaches a stop codon on the mRNA that it is translating, causing release of the completed protein.

Translation

The process in which cellular ribosomes create proteins, decoding the information contained in messenger RNA.

DNA Replication

The biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.

mRNA Molecule

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that conveys genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.