Which of the Following Would Most Likely Involve Use of a Molecular

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following would most likely involve use of a molecular clock?

• A) Determining whether a doctor infected someone with his HIV-positive patient's blood
• B) Determining when West Nile virus arrived in the United States
• C) Determining whether female preference evolved before or after the male trait in a genus of birds
• D) Reconstructing the ancestral states of proteins that code for an enzyme
• E) Assessing the number of times self-incompatibility evolved in a family of plants

Understand the basis of the benefits-received principle of taxation and the ability-to-pay principle.

Understand the changes in government spending and tax structure from 1960 to 2018.

Grasp the concept of deficit spending and its impact on national debt.

Analyze the composition of federal tax revenues and spending allocations.

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