Suppose That Allison Has an Accounting Degree, but She Lost

question 85

Multiple Choice

Suppose that Allison has an accounting degree, but she lost her job two months ago when her company merged with another firm. Allison hasn't been able to find another accounting job, so she has taken a part-time job as a sales clerk at a clothing store. The Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies Allison as:

• A) a marginally attached worker.
• B) a discouraged worker.
• C) underemployed.
• D) unemployed.

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Definitions:

Lamarck

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, was a French naturalist known for his early theory of evolution, proposing that organisms could pass on traits acquired in their lifetime to their offspring.

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

A principle that states allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of evolutionary influences.

Homozygous Recessive

An individual having two identical recessive alleles for a specific trait, resulting in the expression of that trait.

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

A principle stating that allele and genotype frequencies in a population will remain constant from generation to generation in the absence of other evolutionary influences.