According to Mintzberg, Which Role Would a Manager Assume If

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Multiple Choice

According to Mintzberg, which role would a manager assume if she were trying to convince union members to accept a 25-cent-per-hour reduction in pay in order to keep the manufacturing plant open?

• A) resource allocator
• B) entrepreneur
• C) disturbance handler
• D) liaison
• E) negotiator

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Definitions:

Griffith's Transformation

Griffith's transformation experiment demonstrated that bacteria can take up foreign DNA from their environment and express its genetic information, a foundational experiment in molecular biology.

R-strain Bacteria

A type of bacteria distinguished by its rough appearance due to the absence of a polysaccharide capsule, often used in studies of bacterial transformation.

S-strain Bacteria

A strain of bacteria that possesses a smooth capsule made of polysaccharides, making it virulent by protecting it from the host's immune system.

Antiparallel

Said of a double-stranded nucleic acid in which the 5' to 3' direction of the sugar-phosphate backbone of one strand is reversed in the other strand.