All of the Following Are Benefits of New Product Development

question 25

Multiple Choice

All of the following are benefits of new product development to a firm

• A) reducing the costs of production.
• B) satisfying the changing needs of current and new customers.
• C) avoiding market saturation from products that have been on the market for a long time.
• D) creating diversification and reducing risk.
• E) keeping up in a market with short product life cycles where sales come mostly from new products.

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Definitions:

Calvin Cycle

A set of chemical reactions that take place in the chloroplasts of photosynthetic organisms to synthesize glucose from carbon dioxide and water, using ATP and NADPH produced in the light reactions.

Rubisco

An enzyme involved in the first major step of carbon fixation, a process by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted by plants to energy-rich molecules.

Photorespiration

The process that reduces the efficiency of photosynthesis in C3 plants during hot spells in summer; consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide through the degradation of Calvin cycle intermediates.

Rubisco

An enzyme that catalyzes the first step of carbon fixation in the process of photosynthesis.