Planets Detected Via the Doppler Technique Have Been Mostly

question 21

Multiple Choice

Planets detected via the Doppler technique have been mostly

• A)Earth-mass,in Earth-like orbits.
• B)Jupiter-mass,in Jupiter-like orbits.
• C)Jupiter-mass,in very close orbits.
• D)Earth-mass,in very close orbits.
• E)a wide range of masses,in edge-on orbits.

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Definitions:

Direct Benefits

Advantages that directly affect an individual's fitness or survival chances, often used in the context of mate selection where certain traits provide immediate advantages to the chooser.

Indirect Benefits

Advantages that do not directly influence an organism's survival or reproduction but may enhance the survival or reproductive success of its relatives or offspring.

Sexual Selection

A type of natural selection that arises through preference by one sex for certain characteristics in individuals of the other sex.

Reproductive Success

The passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass those genes on, a crucial component of natural selection and evolutionary fitness.