Which of the Following Statements Best Defines a Work Group

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best defines a work group?

• A) A work group performs at a level greater than the sum of its inputs from individual members.
• B) A work group interacts primarily to share information, rather than to engage in work that requires joint effort.
• C) A work group consists of members who work together and generate positive synergy through coordinated effort.
• D) A work group consists of members having complementary skills that are applied in a coordinated fashion to the task at hand.
• E) A work group involves individual and mutual accountability regarding results and outcomes.

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Definitions:

Genes

Genes are units of heredity made up of DNA. They carry the information responsible for the development of organisms.

Carriers

Individuals who have one copy of a gene for a recessive trait and can pass that gene to their offspring, even if they do not exhibit the trait themselves.

Recessive Genes

Genes that are not dominant and can be masked by the presence of dominant genes, requiring two copies, one from each parent, for the trait to be expressed.

Meiosis

The form of cell division in which each pair of chromosomes splits and one member of each pair moves to the new cell. As a result, each new cell has 23 chromosomes.