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madam-professor

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Explain why Titan is of great interest to astronomers.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Which process(es) lead(s) to the gradual evolution of life via natural selection?
 
  A) Changes that organisms acquire during their lives are passed on to their offspring.
  B) Organisms tend to produce more offspring than the local environment can support.
  C) Individuals vary in many heritable traits, and some will be better able to compete for resources at the given time and place in which they live.
  D) A and B
  E) B and C
  F) A, B, and C



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Answer to Question 1

It's thick atmosphere provides another testbed for our understanding of the greenhouse effect. It's complex atmospheric chemistry produces many compounds of astrobiological interest. It's the only other world known to have a hydrologic cycle, though it is too cold for water to ever be liquid - the cycle involves methane and ethane.

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