If a Person Can Make $70,000 as an Accountant, $60,000

question 298

Multiple Choice

If a person can make $70,000 as an accountant, $60,000 as a chef, $20,000 as a mechanic, and nothing as an opera singer, he or she has a comparative advantage in

• A)accounting.
• B)being a chef.
• C)being a mechanic.
• D)opera singing.

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Definitions:

Overlap

The extent to which two or more entities share common areas, features, or functions.

Hybrid Sterility

A postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanism in which an interspecific hybrid cannot reproduce successfully.

Hybrid Breakdown

A postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanism in which, although an interspecific hybrid is fertile and produces a second (F2) generation, the F2 has defects that prevent it from successfully reproducing.

Microevolution

Evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms, especially over a short period.