JCH Company Conducts Business in the Lumber and Building Products

question 24

Multiple Choice

JCH Company conducts business in the lumber and building products industry.Last week, JCH purchased 50 railcars of lumber from a mill in Oregon and sold all 50 to a Home Depot store in North Carolina.In this instance, JCH Company would most likely be classified as a:

• A)Manufacturer.
• B)Retailer.
• C)Warehouse.
• D)Wholesaler.

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Definitions:

Genes

Units of heredity made up of DNA that are responsible for the inherited characteristics in living organisms, dictating the development and functioning of organisms.

Selective Breeding

The process by which humans use animal and plant breeding techniques to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce.

Eugenics

A set of beliefs and practices aimed at improving the genetic quality of the human population, historically associated with morally controversial methods and ideologies.

Cloning

A process of creating a genetically identical copy of an original organism or gene.