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Survival of the Sneakiest

After reading the cartoon Survival of the Sneakiest, answer the following questions with your group or partner.

1. Use the Word Wall, your textbook, or the cartoon and define the following terms:

natural selection

fitness

sexual selection

trait

2. Is the strongest, fastest, or most attractive organism always the most likely to pass genes to the next generation? Explain your answer by using the cartoon.

3. When it comes to crickets, what does fitness mean?

4. Is calling good or bad for a crickets fitness?

5. Give some examples of selection at work in this cricket story.

6. How does selection favor calling?

7. How does selection favor not calling?