To Expand the Number of Its Retail Outlets in the Washington

question 219

Multiple Choice

To expand the number of its retail outlets in the Washington, D.C. area, Whole Foods bought out a small chain of organic food stores in northern Virginia. This type of integration is called

• A) vertical.
• B) retail.
• C) horizontal.
• D) backward.
• E) forward.

Explain the importance of outgroups in determining ancestral states.

Understand the impact of physical and genetic traits on phylogenetic analysis.

Understand the role of fossils in determining ancestral and derived traits.

Recognize the concept of convergent evolution and its outcomes.

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