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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 your textbook, evolution notes 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 for a mate good or bad for a crickets fitness?

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

6. How is singing or calling of the crickets a good thing for selection?

7. How is singing or calling of the crickets not a good thing for selection?

8. How is sneaking and not singing or calling of the crickets a good thing for selection?