-In the Above Figure, If a Firm Is Cleaning Up

question 99

Multiple Choice

-In the above figure, if a firm is cleaning up Q4 units of pollution, it is an

• A) efficient solution, because marginal social benefits are greater than marginal social costs.
• B) efficient solution, because marginal social benefits are equal to marginal social costs.
• C) inefficient solution, because marginal social benefits are greater than marginal social costs.
• D) inefficient solution, because marginal social costs are greater than marginal social benefits.

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Definitions:

Antibiotic-Resistant

Describes bacteria that have evolved the ability to survive exposure to antibiotics, making infections harder to treat.

Genome

Originally, all the genetic material in a cell or individual organism. The term is used in more than one way depending on context (e.g., an organism’s haploid genome is all the DNA contained in one haploid set of its chromosomes, and its mitochondrial genome is all the DNA in a mitochondrion). See Human Genome.

Chromosomal DNA

Chromosomal DNA is the DNA that constitutes the chromosomes of a cell, encoding most of the genetic information needed for the organism's development, functioning, and reproduction.

Human Genome Project

Initiative completed in 2003 to determine the sequence of bases for a human haploid reference genome of more than 3 billion nucleotide base pairs.