When Property Rights Are Clearly Defined and Enforced, Private Owners

question 19

Multiple Choice

When property rights are clearly defined and enforced, private owners will

• A) use their property for selfish ends because they have little or no incentive to consider the desires of others.
• B) develop and direct their property toward uses that others value highly because the market will generally reward them for doing so.
• C) have little or no incentive to take care of their property or conserve it for the future.
• D) be unable to derive personal gain if they are sensitive to the desires of others when deciding how to use their property.

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Definitions:

Translocation

The movement of substances within a plant, particularly the transport of sugars and other molecules from leaves to other tissues via the phloem.

Pressure-Flow Model

A hypothesis describing how nutrients, especially sugars, are transported in plants from sources to sinks via the phloem.

Translocation

A chromosomal abnormality where a segment of one chromosome is transferred to another chromosome.

Pressure-Flow Model

A hypothesis that explains how sugars are transported in plants, suggesting that pressure differences move solutes through phloem sieve tubes.