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  2. Defined contribution health benefits - Wikipedia

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    Defined contribution health benefits. A Defined Contribution Health Benefit is a consumer-driven health care scheme in the United States in which employers choose a set dollar amount to contribute towards an employee's healthcare. Under a Defined Contribution Health Plan the employee is responsible for researching and purchasing his or her own ...

  3. Biologist - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. [ 1 ] They usually specialize in a particular branch (e.g., molecular biology, zoology, and evolutionary ...

  4. Employee benefits - Wikipedia

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    Employee benefits in the United States include relocation assistance; medical, prescription, vision and dental plans; health and dependent care flexible spending accounts; retirement benefit plans (pension, 401 (k), 403 (b)); group term life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance plans; income protection plans (also known as ...

  5. Systematics - Wikipedia

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    Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). Phylogenies have two components: branching order (showing group relationships, graphically represented in ...

  6. Defined benefit pension plan - Wikipedia

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    Personal finance. Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.

  7. Biology - Wikipedia

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    Biology is the scientific study of life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary information encoded in genes , which can be transmitted to future ...

  8. Retirement plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Retirement plans are classified as either defined benefit plans or defined contribution plans, depending on how benefits are determined.. In a defined benefit (or pension) plan, benefits are calculated using a fixed formula that typically factors in final pay and service with an employer, and payments are made from a trust fund specifically dedicated to the plan.

  9. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Person/s considered "father" or "mother". Rationale. Zoology. Aristotle (384–322 BC) His contributions to the field include vast quantities of information about the variety, structure, and behavior of animals. Bacteriology. Robert Koch (1843–1910) Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898) [ 4 ] Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) First to produce precise ...