The document discusses how natural selection and sexual selection impact the survival and reproduction of field crickets. Specifically, it examines how traits like calling behavior can either increase or decrease a cricket's fitness depending on how they affect its ability to pass on genes to the next generation. Selection sometimes favors crickets that call to attract mates, and other times favors sneaky crickets that do not call so as to avoid detection by predators.
The document discusses how natural selection and sexual selection impact the survival and reproduction of field crickets. Specifically, it examines how traits like calling behavior can either increase or decrease a cricket's fitness depending on how they affect its ability to pass on genes to the next generation. Selection sometimes favors crickets that call to attract mates, and other times favors sneaky crickets that do not call so as to avoid detection by predators.
The document discusses how natural selection and sexual selection impact the survival and reproduction of field crickets. Specifically, it examines how traits like calling behavior can either increase or decrease a cricket's fitness depending on how they affect its ability to pass on genes to the next generation. Selection sometimes favors crickets that call to attract mates, and other times favors sneaky crickets that do not call so as to avoid detection by predators.
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 ass genes to the next generation! "xlain your answer by using the cartoon.
#. When it comes to crickets, what does fitness mean!
$. Is calling good or bad for a cricket%s fitness!
&. 'ive some examles of selection at work in this cricket story.