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The risks best suited for funded retention are those in which the risk has: 

Tim owns a small landscaping company = Tim’s Trees & Shrubs. When a customer requests landscaping services, Tim sends his employees out in a company truck that is pulling a trailer that houses all of the landscaping tools, equipment, and machinery. Tim’s employees are very diligent, but maybe one or two times a year, an employee will be careless while backing the trailer into a customer’s yard and accidently damage the customer’s grass or other small shrubbery. Tim knows these are simply accidents: since they do not happen very often and usually only cost around $200-$300 to replace the damaged property. During the one or two times this occurs per year: Tim’s Trees & Shrubs will simply pay for the damage caused to customer’s property out of the company’s business bank account.  Which method of risk financing is Tim’s Trees & Shrubs practicing?  

There are several advantages if a firm chooses to engage in self-insured retention as opposed to engaging in a risk transfer (i.e. purchase insurance)  All of the following are advantages of self-insured retention as a risk financing technique – EXCEPT:   

Match each method of retention with its corresponding definition: 

One of the main disadvantages of self-insured retention as a risk financing technique is the possibility of sustaining a “catastrophic loss” > which the firm will be responsible for paying if they choose to engage in retention.  What is the key reason that the possibility of a catastrophic loss makes engaging in self-insured retention difficult, if not impossible? 

A female has the genotype of [answer1] and a male has the genotype of [answer2].

A three code sequence of RNA is called a:

A dominant trait will only show if there is a homozygous genotype.

What does a tRNA molecule use to identify the proper amino acid?

Cells that are produced through meiosis are called ______________.